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The escort carrier USS Block Island (CVE-21) was torpedoed by a German submarine while engaged in hunter-killer operations in the Atlantic Ocean, May 29, 1944. Block Island was the only U.S. aircraft carrier lost in the Atlantic during World War II.
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