Kamikazes

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Murman, John War’s End & Occupation Duty
John Edmund Murman, assigned to the USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103), left Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor,...
Ettinger, Hugh War’s End and Occupation
Hugh Ettinger was assigned to an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in the Pacific Theater. After a couple of...
Hibbard, Hershel War’s End and Returning Home
Throughout summer of 1945, the Belleau Wood [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)] began launching its planes...
Ellis, Frederick Worst Combat
Frederick Ellis had seven 40mm guns [Annotator's Note; Bofors 40mm automatic cannon] and 12 20mm guns [Annotator's Note...
Townsend, Joseph Wounded at Sea
Joseph Townsend went to the sick bay in Pearl [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]. Townsend was x-rayed and they...
Petrus, Andrew Wounded in Okinawa
On Easter morning, 1 April 1945, Andrew Petrus [Annotator's Note: with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment...
Martin, Charles Wounded on Okinawa
Charles Martin remembers that the new tanks had 75 mm howitzers on them. Martin and a friend learned how to swim...
Werner, Jack Wounded on Okinawa
[Annotator's Note: Jack Werner fought on Leyte Island, Philippines from October 1944 until April 1945]. In that time,...
Anti-aircraft fire above US aircraft carriers on Iwo Jima in February
Anti-aircraft fire above US aircraft carriers. Official captions:'"Jap [Japanese] suicide plane hits the water off Iwo...
Burning Japanese airplane diving towards an American aircraft carrier off the coast of Peleliu, 1944
Photograph. Burning Japanese airplane diving towards an American aircraft carrier; two folded Grumman Avenger torpedo...
Captured Kamikaze Aircraft, Hickam Field, Oahu c.1945
US dubbed 'Baka' or Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, "cherry blossom," a rocket powered human-guided kamikaze attack plane, "...
Crew of the USS Wilkes-Barre helping fight fires on the burning USS Bunker Hill off the coast of Okinawa, 1945
Photograph. Crew of the USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103) helping fight fires on the burning USS Bunker Hill (CV-17). Official...
Damaged deck of the USS Aaron Ward off the coast of Okinawa, 1945
Photograph. Damaged deck of the USS Aaron Ward (DM-34) after Japanese kamikaze attacks. Official caption on front: "The...
Damaged deck of the USS Lamson in Ormoc Bay, Leyte Island, 1944
Photograph. Damaged deck of the USS Lamson (DD-367) after a kamikaze attack. Official caption on front: "Navy destroyer...
Damaged deck of the USS Nevada off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Debris covering the damaged deck of the USS Nevada (BB-36) after a kamikaze attack. Official caption on...
Damaged signal bridge on the USS Hornet (CV-8) off the coast of the Santa Cruz Islands, 1942
Photograph. Signal bridge aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) damaged by a kamikaze attack; smoke is rising...
Damaged USS Ticonderoga off the coast of Taiwan, 1945
Photograph. Damaged island control structure of the USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) after a Japanese kamikaze attack. Official...
Deck of the USS Morris after a kamikaze attack off the coast of Okinawa, 1945
Photograph. Damaged deck of the USS Morris (DD-417) after a Japanese kamikaze attack. Official caption on front: "...
Deck of the USS Newcomb after a kamikaze attack off the coast of Okinawa, 1945
Photograph. Sailors surveying the severely damaged deck of the USS Newcomb (DD-586). Official caption on front: "USS...
Destroyed airplanes on the deck of the USS Bunker Hill off the coast of Okinawa, 1945
Photograph. Warplanes destroyed by Japanese kamikazes on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)....
Destroyed elevator on the USS Bunker Hill off the coast of Okinawa, 1945
Photograph. Destroyed elevator on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17). Official caption on front: "No. 2 elevator on Bunker...
Fire on the deck of the USS Nevada off the coast of Okinawa, 1945
Photograph. Large Fire on the deck of the USS Nevada (BB-36) after a kamikaze attack; United States Navy sailors are...
Flaming Japanese airplane diving towards an American aircraft carrier, Philippine Sea
Photograph. Flaming Japanese airplane diving towards an American aircraft carrier; another carrier is in the foreground...
Japanese kamikaze attacking the USS Suwannee off the coast of Leyte Island, 1944
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze diving towards the USS Suwannee (CVE-27); a Grumman F6F Hellcat is flying over the ship....
Japanese kamikaze attacking the USS Suwannee off the coast of Leyte Island, 1944
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze diving towards the USS Suwannee (CVE-27); a Grumman F6F Hellcat is flying in from the...
Japanese kamikaze colliding with the USS Suwannee off the coast of Leyte Island, 1944
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze colliding with the USS Suwannee (CVE-27) and exploding on contact; a Grumman F6F Hellcat...
Japanese soldiers lie dead near their wrecked plane at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Japanese soldiers who participated in a suicide attack on American-held Yontan airfield on Okinawa lie dead...
Japanese suicide bomber crashes into the water after being hit, Okinawa Island, July 1945
Photograph. Japanese suicide bomber crashes into the water after being hit by anti-aircraft guns. Official Caption: "...
Japanese suicide plane crashes into ocean near a U.S. Navy carrier, Pacific Ocean, July 1945
Photograph. Japanese suicide plane crashes into ocean after narrowly missing a U.S. Navy carrier. Official Caption: "...
Japanese suicide rocket bomb on Okinawa, Japan, 1945
Photograph. U.S. Marines examining a Japanese manned flying bomb on Okinawa. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/9/45--Captured...
Kamikaze attacking narrowly missing the USS Ticonderoga off the coast of the Philippines
Photograph. Column of water rising from the ocean from a kamikaze crashing next to the USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)....
Kamikaze attacking the USS Santa Fe off the coast of Taiwan
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze attcking the USS Santa Fe in open water. Official caption on front: "Jap suicide plane...
Kamikaze banking near US warship off the coast of Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze banking in air near an American warship. Official caption on front: "Kamikaze attack off...
Kamikaze crashing near a US aircraft carrier off the coast of Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze crashing in the ocean next to an American aircraft carrier; antiaircraft flak is in the...
Kamikaze plane crashing in near US aircraft carriers off the coast of Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze plane crashing in the ocean near two American aircraft carriers; antiaircraft flak is in...
Kamikaze plane falling out of flak-filled sky off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Flaming Japanese kamikaze plane falling out of sky filled with clouds of antiaircraft flak; two American...

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