USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73)

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USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) was a U.S. Navy Casablanca-class escort carrier famed for her outgunned but heroic stand against a superior Japanese force during the Battle off Samar in World War II, where she became the only American aircraft carrier sunk by naval gunfire.

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