Who survivded the sinked of USS Franklin CV boat 13?

Answer 1

The USS Franklin did not sink. It was extremely heavily damaged, believed to be the worst damaged carrier of the war which did not sink. A single Japanese aircraft dropped two 550 pound bombs, which both hit. At the time the Franklin had over thirty fully fueled and armed aircraft of her own on deck, which began to burn and explode, causing the bombs they had loaded to also explode. It took very heroic efforts by the survivors of her crew to save the ship and fight the massive fires. The Franklin had a crew of 2600 officers and men (plus the embarked Air Group aboard, which included all the pilots, air crew, staff, mechanics, armorers and other service personnel who actually operated the aircraft that were on board). Of these 724 were killed or missing and another 265 wounded.

The crew got the fires out and the Franklin returned under her own power to the states, where the massive job of repairing her was performed. This was not finished when the war ended, so the attack that day in March 1945 put her out of the war. The Franklin was eventually sold for scrap in 1966.