USS Brooks (DD-232/APD-10)
|
On 6 January 1945 a Japanese suicide
plane crashed into Brooks' port side starting a fire amidships. The
main and auxiliary steam lines were severed; the fire main broken; and the
sea valve to the condenser was pierced, causing the forward engine room to
flood. Three of Brooks' crew were killed and 11 wounded. She was
towed to San Pedro, California and decommissioned there.
|
Image Gallery (Click on image to see
enlarged version.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
USS Brooks (DD-232/APD-10) |
|
NARA photo, Puget Sound Navy Yard, 4 January 1943. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
