Video: 'Tribute to the USS Bismarck Sea CVE-95'

(Wednesday, February 21, 1945, 6:45 p.m. JST; during the Battle of Iwo Jima, part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II) — The escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea was sunk today by Japanese kamikazes suicide attacks with the loss of 318 men.

Notably, she was the last aircraft carrier in U.S. service to sink due to enemy action.