She was the only ship outside the British Royal Navy to earn the Admiralty Pennant, the highest award of the British, in the more than 400 years since its creation. , a , was best known for launching the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo on 18 April 1942, as well as participating in the pivotal victory at the Battle of Midway. was the lead ship of her highly successful class of submarine, which, along with the closely related and , eventually totaled 213 ships. These modern submarines were responsible for most of the destruction 55% of Japan's merchant marine that came about from American submarine attack during World War II. The war against shipping was the single most decisive factor in the collapse of the Japanese economy during the war. The Gato, Balao, and Tench classes also remained the backbone of American underwater fleet well past the ending of the war. was an light cruiser torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 13 November 1942. A total 687 men, including, infamously, all five of the Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, were killed in action as a result of its sinking. was the only US battleship to sink an enemy battleship in direct combat, when she sank the in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 13 November 1942. was an aircraft carrier and the lead ship of the twenty four-ship . The Essex class was the 20th century's most numerous class of capital ships, was the backbone of the U.S. Navy's combat strength during World War II from mid-1943 on, and (along with the addition of the three carriers just after the war) continued to be the heart of U.S. Naval strength until the 1960s and 1970s. was a that sank six Japanese submarines in twelve days during May 1944, a feat unparalleled in the history of antisubmarine warfare. was a best known for torpedoing and sinking the 72,000-ton Japanese aircraft carrier , the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine, in November 1944. , a Balao-class submarine that performed the amazing feat of sinking three Japanese submarines in a 76-hour period, in February 1945 during World War II. , a , delivered components of Little Boy, the first nuclear weapon used in combat, to the US Air Army Air Force base on Tinian island. Upon completion of this secret mission, it was sunk on 30 July 1945