How America's Smallest Warship Crushed Japan's Fleet in 12 Days

A ship the Navy called "expendable" satisfit the most lethal anti-submarine patrol in history.

In May 1944, USS England — a destroyer escort one-quarter the size of a fleet destroyer — received orders to hunt Japanese submarines north of the Solomon Islands. The crew had never sunk anything larger than a practice target. Their weapon was a mortar system most captains considered experimental garbage.

What happened over the next twelve days rewrote every anti-submarine warfare manual in the U.S. Navy. And eighty-two years later, no warship in any navy has matched what England accomplished.

This is the story of codebreakers who found the enemy, a weapon nobody trusted, and a crew that proved everyone wrong.

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