Attack on Yokosuka | |||||||
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Part of Pacific War, World War II | |||||||
Japanese battleship Nagato in 1945 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States United Kingdom | Empire of Japan | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
William Halsey John S. McCain Bernard Rawlings | |||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Imperial Japanese Navy | |||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
14 aircraft 18 aircrew killed |
1 destroyer 1 submarine 2 escort vessels sunk 1 battleship damaged 5 small ships damaged 43 aircraft destroyed 77 aircraft damaged |
The attack on Yokosuka was an air raid conducted by the United States Navy on 18 July 1945 during the last weeks of the Pacific War. The Japanese battleship Nagato was the raid's main target, though anti-aircraft positions and other warships at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal were also attacked. Other U.S. Navy and Royal Navy aircraft struck airfields in the Tokyo area.
While Nagato was only lightly damaged, the American aircraft sank a destroyer, a submarine and two escort vessels and damaged five small vessels. The Allied pilots also claimed the destruction of several locomotives and 43 Japanese aircraft as well as damage to another 77 aircraft. Japanese anti-aircraft guns shot down twelve American and two British aircraft.