In November 1943, two sailors from the Liscomb Bay aircraft carrier, a ship that was sunk during the Battle of Marin in the Pacific War, were covered with American flags and buried in the Pacific Ocean waters from the Coast Guard ship Leonard Wood.

   In November 1943, shortly after the Battle of Marin in the Pacific War, two sailors from the ship USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56) were covered with American flags and buried at sea in the Pacific Ocean by a Coast Guard ship; two petty officers who died aboard USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56), USS Leonard Wood (APA-12) were buried at sea by the crew of the USS Leonard Wood (APA-12). Two of the rescued crewmen died and were buried at sea by a marine burial, where bodies were buried at sea from ships, boats, and aircraft.　

 　At 5:10 a.m. on November 24, 1943, the escort carrier and flagship USS Liscum Bay was sunk in only 23 minutes by the Japanese submarine I-175, which arrived near Makin One torpedo fired by I-175 detonated the Liscum Bay's aircraft bomb stockpile. Liscum Bay was hit in the worst place for bomb storage, unprotected from torpedo hits and debris damage. The explosion collapsed half of the ship. No one survived behind the forward bulkhead in the rear of the engine room. By the time the flames had subsided, all the sailors in the latter part of the "Riscum Bay" had been killed in the explosion.　A massive explosion engulfed the entire ship, which sank rapidly. The attack on Liscum Bay accounted for most of the American casualties in the Battle of Makin. Of the Liscum Bay's crew of approximately 916 men, about 644 (53 officers and 591 enlisted men) were killed. Approximately 272 were rescued.

 　The Battle of Makin broke out on Butaritari Atoll in the Gilbert Islands between November 20 and November 23, 1943, during the Pacific War. It took the U.S. forces four days to fully occupy Makin, with considerably more naval casualties than ground troops. The Japanese lost about 395 men killed in action, while the Americans lost about 763. The loss ratio was excessive for the U.S. forces, and the latter half of the Pacific War was one of the few battles in which the U.S. casualties exceeded those of the Japanese, even during the U.S. offensive phase of the war.