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USS HOPEWELL (DD-681)
smoking amidships, just after she was
hit four times by a Japanese shore battery while moving in to help
damaged YMS-48 supporting minesweeping operations in the North Channel
off Corregidor, in Manila Bay, Philippines, 14 February 1945. Seventeen
crewmembers were killed, and 12 were wounded. YMS-48,
suffering 3 lost and 14 wounded, was later sunk by gunfire of the USS
Fletcher, also damaged in the exchange of fire. Hopewell's camouflage
scheme is Measure 31, Design 9d.
Official U.S. Navy
Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
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