The USS England off San Francisco, 1944. Wikimedia Commons/Public domain
Michael Peck, National Interest: This Tiny U.S. Navy Warship Sank the Most Submarines in History
Destroyer escorts were the econo-warships of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Designed to be smaller and cheaper alternatives to Navy destroyers, destroyer escorts weren’t designed to slug it out in a fleet battle like their bigger brothers. Instead theirs was the dreary but vital duty of escorting convoys of slow merchant ships across the oceans.
Yet the world’s record for sinking submarines belongs not to a destroyer or an aircraft carrier, but a humble destroyer escort. The USS England sank six Japanese submarines in just 12 days in May 1944.
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WNU Editor: Six Japanese submarines in just 12 days in May 1944 …. that is a record that I doubt anyone will ever match let alone surpass.
