Battle of Point Judith | |||||||
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Part of World War II and Battle of the Atlantic | |||||||
Sailors aboard USS Moberly firing on U-853. | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States | Germany | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Sea • Destroyer Ericsson • 2 Destroyer escorts USS Amick USS Atherton • Frigate Moberly • SS Black Point Air 2 blimps | Submarine U-853 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
12 killed Black Point sunk |
55 killed U-853 sunk |
The Battle of Point Judith is the popular name for a naval engagement fought between the United States and Nazi Germany during World War II on May 5 and 6, 1945 - with Germany on the verge of total defeat and surrender, and Hitler having already died by suicide. American surface combatants and two blimps sank a German U-boat off Point Judith, Rhode Island in one of the last actions of the Battle of the Atlantic. The SS Black Point a 368-foot, 7,500-ton coal ship, was sunk at the start of the Battle.[1]