On the recordOctober 10, 2000
The greatest naval disaster for the United States during World War II was the sinking of the Arizona, when 1,077 were killed. The Arizona has properly been memorialized in the national consciousness. On November 26, 1943, there was a loss of American military personnel of almost identical magnitude when the British troop transport ship HMT ROHNA was sunk by a radio-controlled rocket-boosted bomb launched from a German bomber off the coast of North Africa. By the next day, 1,015 American troops and more than 100 British and allied officers and crewmen had perished, but the U.S. troops aboard the ROHNA have been largely forgotten by the country. It was not publicized at the time at all. Hundreds died immediately when the missile struck. The majority died from exposure and drowning when darkness and rough seas limited rescue efforts. Over 900 did survive.
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