Attack on Yokosuka

Attack on Yokosuka
	Part of Pacific War, World War II
	; Japanese battleship Nagato in 1945
Date	18 July 1945
Location	Yokosuka, Japan
Status	Allied victory
Belligerents
United States; United Kingdom	Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
	William Halsey; John S. McCain; Bernard Rawlings
Units involved
Third Fleet Task Force 37; Task Force 38;	Imperial Japanese Navy
Casualties and losses
14 aircraft; 18 aircrew killed	1 destroyer; 1 submarine; 2 escort vessels sunk ; 1 battleship damaged; 5 small ships damaged; 43 aircraft destroyed; 77 aircraft damaged

The attack on Yokosuka was an air raid conducted by the United States Navy on 18 July 1945 during the last weeks of the Pacific War. The Japanese battleship Nagato was the raid's main target, though anti-aircraft positions and other warships at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal were also attacked. Other U.S. Navy and Royal Navy aircraft struck airfields in the Tokyo area.

While Nagato was only lightly damaged, the American aircraft sank a destroyer, a submarine and two escort vessels and damaged five small vessels. The Allied pilots also claimed the destruction of several locomotives and 43 Japanese aircraft as well as damage to another 77 aircraft. Japanese anti-aircraft guns shot down twelve American and two British aircraft.

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