The "Graveyard Shift": The Most Dangerous Place off Okinawa – Soldier of Fortune Magazine
USS Morrison (DD-560) underway, in a photo taken from USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73). Another aircraft carrier can be seen in the distance. National Archives photograph, USN 243852. The mass assaults by kamikazes against the Fifth Fleet off Okinawa, although doing severe damage to ships and their crews, was not the success the Empire of Japan hoped it would be. Despite the sinking of several smaller U.S. Navy vessels in March and April, the ships taking the brunt of the Kikusui operations remained the picket destroyers. Sailors onboard the “tin cans” often remained at general quarters ...
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