Ex-USS Stewart (DD-224) under attack while being sunk as a target on 24 May 1946. Airplanes seen include an F4U Corsair in the lead, followed by two F6F Hellcats. Official Photograph of the aerial attack on DD-224 on May 24, 1946, when the ship was disposed of as a target. The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Stewart (DD-224) being sunk as a target off California on 24 May 1946. Three aircraft, two Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat and a Vought F4U Corsair, attack her with rockets. Stewart had been captured by the Japanese, damaged and sunk in a floating drydock at Surabaya, Java. She was reparied and commissioned as Patrol Boat No. 102 on 20 September 1943. The ship was found laid up by U.S. occupation forces and recommissioned on 29 October 1945 as DD-224, as USS Stewart (DE-238) was active with the U.S. Navy. Note that she wears both the Japanese hull number "P102" as the U.S. Navy hull number "224" on this photo. Stewart was transferred back to the U.S., but had to be towed before reaching Guam as her machinery gave out.