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Ships sunk by kamikaze attack

USS Abner Read (DD-526) (destroyer) 1 Nov 1944 Cressman p 569 location 10 47N 125 22E
USS Barry (DD-248) (APD-29) (high-speed transport) 21 Jun 1945^[1]
USS Bates (DE-68) (APD-47) (high-speed transport) 25 May 1945
USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95) (CVE-21) (escort carrier) 21 Feb 1945
USS Bush (DD-529) (destroyer) 6 Apr 1945
USS Callaghan (DD-792) (destroyer) 29 July 1945^[2]
SS Canada Victory (cargo ship) 27 Apr1945
USS Colhoun (DD-801) (destroyer) 6 Apr 1944
USS Drexler (DD-741) (destroyer) 28 May 1945
USS Emmons (DD-457) (DMS-22) (high-speed minesweeper) 6 Apr 1945
SS Hobbs Victory (Victory cargo ship) 6 Apr 1945
SS John Burke (Liberty cargo ship) 28 Dec 1944
USS LCS(L)(3)-15 (landing craft, support (large) (Mk. III)) 22 1945
USS LCS(L)(3)-33 (landing craft, support (large) (Mk. III)) 12 Apr 1945^[3]
SS Lewis L. Dyche (Liberty cargo ship) 5 Jan 1945
USS Little (DD-803) (destroyer) 3 May 1945
SS Logan Victory (Victory cargo ship) 6 Apr 1945
USS Long (DD-209) (DMS-12) (high-speed minesweeper) 6 Jan 1945
USS LSM-20 (landing ship, medium) 5 Dec 1944
USS LSM-59 (landing ship, medium) 21 June 1945
USS LSM-135 (landing ship, medium (rocket)) 25 May 1945
USS LSM(R)-190 (landing ship, medium (rocket)) 4 May 1945
USS LSM(R)-194 (landing ship, medium (rocket)) 4 May 1945
USS LSM(R)-195 (landing ship, medium (rocket)) 3 May 1945
USS LSM-318 (landing ship, medium) 7 Dec 1944
USS LST-447 (landing ship, tank) 7 Apr 1945^[4]
USS LST-460 (landing ship, tank) 21 Dec 1944
USS LST-472 (landing ship, tank) 15 Dec 1944
USS LST-738 (landing ship, tank) 15 Dec 1944
USS LST-749 (landing ship, tank) 21 Dec 1944
USS Luce (DD-522) (destroyer) 4 May 1945
USS Mahan (DD-364) (destroyer) 7 Dec 1944
USS Mannert L. Abele (DD-733) (destroyer) 12 Apr 1945
USS Morrison (DD-560) (destroyer) 4 May 1945
USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) (escort carrier) 4 Jan 1945
USS Porcupine (IX-126) (auxiliary tanker) 30 Dec 1944
USS Pringle (DD-477) (destroyer) 16 Apr 1945
USS PT-300 (motor torpedo boat) 18 Dec 1944
USS PT-323 (motor torpedo boat) 10 Dec 1944
USS Reid (DD-369) (destroyer) 11 Dec 1944
USS SC-744 (submarine chaser) 27 Nov 1944
USS St. Lo (CVE-63) (escort carrier) 25 Oct 1945^[5]
USS Swallow (AM-65) (minesweeper) 22 Apr 1945
USS Twiggs (DD-591) (destroyer) 16 Jun 1945
USS Ward (DD-139) (APD-16) (high-speed transport) 7 Dec 1944
USS William D. Porter (DD-579) (destroyer) 10 June 1945
SS William S. Ladd (Liberty cargo ship) 10 Dec 1944

Ships damaged by kamikaze attack

Ship	Damaged or Sunk	Date
USS Aaron Ward (DM-34)	Damaged
USS Achernar (AKA-53)	Damaged
USS Achilles (ARL-41)	Damaged
USS Alpine (APA-92)	Damaged
USS Ammen (DD-527)	Damaged
USS Anthony (DD-515)	Damaged
USS Apache (ATF-67)	Damaged
HMAS Arunta (I30)	Damaged
HMAS Australia (D84)	Damaged
USS Bache (DD-470)	Damaged
USS Barry (DD-248)	Damaged
USS Belknap (DD-251)	Damaged
USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)	Damaged
USS Birmingham (CL-62)	Damaged
USS Bowers (DE-637)	Damaged
USS Braine (DD-630)	Damaged
USS Bright (DE-747)	Damaged
USS Brooks (DD-232)	Damaged
USS Bryant (DD-665)	Damaged
USS Bullard (DD-660)	Damaged
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)	Damaged
USS Butler (DD-636)	Damaged
USS Cabot (CVL-28)	Damaged
USS Caldwell (DD-605)	Damaged
USS California (BB-44)	Damaged
USS Callaway (APA-35)	Damaged
USS Cassin Young (DD-793)	Damaged
USS Champion (AM-314)	Damaged
USS Chase (DE-158)	Damaged
USS Claxton (DD-571)	Damaged
USS Columbia (CL-56)	Damaged
USS Comfort (AH-6)	Damaged
USS Cowell (DD-547)	Damaged
USS Daly (DD-519)	Damaged
USS Devilfish (SS-292)	Damaged
USS Dickerson (DD-157)	Damaged
USS Dorsey (DD-117)	Damaged
USS Douglas H. Fox (DD-779)	Damaged
USS DuPage (APA-41)	Damaged
USS England (DE-635)	Damaged
USS Enterprise (CV-6)	Damaged
USS Essex (CV-9)	Damaged
USS Evans (DD-552)	Damaged
USS Facility (AM-233)	Damaged
HMS Formidable (67)	Damaged
USS Forrest (DD-461)	Damaged
USS Franklin (CV-13)	Damaged
USS Gansevoort (DD-608)	Damaged
USS Gilligan (DE-508)	Damaged
USS Gregory (DD-802)	Damaged
USS Guest (DD-472)	Damaged
USS Gwin (DM-33)	Damaged
USS Haggard (DD-555)	Damaged
USS Halloran (DE-305)	Damaged
USS Hambleton (DD-455)	Damaged
USS Hancock (CV-19)	Damaged
USS Hank (DD-702)	Damaged
USS Haraden (DD-585)	Damaged
USS Harding (DD-625)	Damaged
USS Haynsworth (DD-700)	Damaged
USS Hazelwood (DD-531)	Damaged
USS Henrico (APA-45)	Damaged
USS Hinsdale (APA-120)	Damaged
USS Hobson (DD-464)	Damaged
USS Hodges (DE-231)	Damaged
USS Hopkins (DD-249)	Damaged
USS Howorth (DD-592)	Damaged
USS Hughes (DD-410)	Damaged
USS Hyman (DD-732)	Damaged
HMS Indefatigable (R10)	Damaged
USS Ingraham (DD-694)	Damaged
USS Isherwood (DD-520)	Damaged
USS J. William Ditter (DM-31)	Damaged
USS Kadashan Bay (CVE-76)	Damaged
USS Kalinin Bay (CVE-68)	Damaged
USS Keokuk (CMc-6)	Damaged
USS Kidd (DD-661)	Damaged
USS Kimberly (DD-521)	Damaged
USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71)	Damaged
USS La Grange (APA-124)	Damaged
[[USS Laffey (DD-724)]	Damaged
USS Lamson (DD-367)	Damaged
USS Leutze (DD-481)	Damaged
USS Liddle (DE-206)	Damaged
USS Lindsey (DM-32)	Damaged
USS Louisville (CA-28)	Damaged
USS Loy (DE-160)	Damaged
USS LSM(R)-189	Damaged
USS LST-884	Damaged
USS Mahnomen County (LST-912)	Damaged
USS Manila Bay (CVE-61)	Damaged
SS Marcus Daly	Damaged
USS Marcus Island (CVE-77)	Damaged
USS Maryland (BB-46)	Damaged
USS Mississippi (BB-41)	Damaged
USS Moale (DD-693)	Damaged
USS Montpelier (CL-57)	Damaged
USS Morris (DD-417)	Damaged
USS Mullany (DD-528)	Damaged
USS Nashville (CL-43)	Damaged
USS Natoma Bay (CVE-62)	Damaged
USS Nevada (BB-36)	Damaged
USS New Mexico (BB-40)	Damaged
USS New York (BB-34)	Damaged
USS Newcomb (DD-586)	Damaged
USS O'Neill (DE-188)	Damaged
USS Orestes (AGP-10)	Damaged
USS Pathfinder (AGS-1)	Damaged
USS Pinkney (APH-2)	Damaged
USS Prichett (DD-561)	Damage d\|
USS Purdy (DD-734)	Damaged
USS Rall (DE-304)	Damaged
USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390)	Damaged
USS Randolph (CV-15)	Damaged
USS Ransom (AM-283)	Damaged
USS Rathburne (DD-113)	Damaged
USS Rednour (APD-102)	Damaged
USS Reno (CL-96)	Damaged
USS Riddle (DE-185)	Damaged
USS Roper (DD-147)	Damaged
USS Salamaua (CVE-96)	Damaged
USS Samuel S. Miles (DE-183)	Damaged
USS San Pablo (AVP-30)	Damaged
USS Sandoval (APA-194)	Damaged
USS Sangamon (CVE-26)	Damaged
USS Santee (CVE-29)	Damaged
USS Savo Island (CVE-78)	Damaged
USS Sederstrom (DE-31)	Damaged
USS Shubrick (DD-639)	Damaged
USS Sims (DE-154)	Damaged
USS Sonoma (AT-12)	Damaged
USS Southard (DD-207)	Damaged
USS Spectacle (AM-305)	Damaged
USS St. George (AV-16)	Damaged
USS St. Louis (CL-49)	Damaged
USS Stafford (DE-411)	Damaged
USS Suwannee (CVE-27)	Damaged
USS Taluga (AO-62)	Damaged
USS Telfair (APA-210)	Damaged
USS Tennessee (BB-43)	Damaged
USS Terror (CM-5)	Damaged
USS Thatcher (DD-514)	Damaged
USS Tyrrell (AKA-80)	Damaged
USS Wadsworth (DD-516)	Damaged
USS Walke (DD-723)	Damaged
USS Wesson (DE-184)	Damaged
USS White Plains (CVE-66)	Damaged
USS Whitehurst (DE-634)	Damaged
USS Wilson (DD-408)	Damaged
USS Witter (DE-636)	Damaged
USS Zeilin (APA-3)	Damaged

References

^ The Naval Historical Center listing states that Barry (APD-29) was "damaged by Kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 25 May 1945, and sunk as a decoy, 21 June 1945." This description does not make clear how Barry sank on June 21, 1945.
The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships describes the sinking as follows:
Barry was towed to the anchorage at Kerama Retto 28 May and found too extensively damaged to warrant repair or salvage. Stripped of useful gear, she was decommissioned 21 June 1945. Later in the day she was towed from the harbor of Kerama Retto to be used as a decoy for the kamikazes. While under tow she was attacked by Japanese suicide planes and sunk along with her escort, LSM-59.
There is another account of the sinking:
Kimball (2007), crewmember of fleet tug USS Lipan (ATF-85), tells the story of the sinking of Barry by a kamikaze plane:
The USS Barry was an old four-stacker Destroyer commissioned around 1920 and modernized and converted into a high-speed troop transport and reclassified as an APD. It took some hits and was intentionally run up on the beach to avoid sinking in deep water and it spent sometime just sitting there. The High Command was experimenting with methods of defending against the relentless kamikaze attacks by the Japanese pilots and it was decided to use the Barry as a decoy to attract the suicide pilots. Since Barry was stripped of all usable equipment its hulk was expendable. Lipan's divers put a soft patch on the hull of the Barry and its interior was filled with empty sealed 5" ammo containers. It was hoped the sealed containers would act as flotation gear and make the Barry less vulnerable to sinking from direct hits. The Barry was fitted with remote controlled flashing lights that looked like anti-aircraft gun muzzle flashes from the air. It also had smudge pots placed at strategic locations and remotely controlled to simulate stack smoke and damage from attacks. From the air it looked like a fully operational Destroyer and it was intended to draw the kamikaze pilots to it and away from the nearby manned vessels. The LSM contained the remote controls for the Barry's pseudo weapons and Lipan was to tow the Barry to simulate an underway tin can. It didn't take long before two kamikaze planes appeared just ten feet off the water equipped with huge bombs strapped to their belly to create a gigantic explosion when they slammed into a vessel. To our dismay, the first attacking Japanese plane slammed into the small LSM 59 and hit it directly amidships. The resultant explosion blew the ship into the hereafter and there was not one recognizable part left floating and at least sixty sailors met their demise. We hadn't anytime to think as the second kamikaze climbed straight up to make a dive on us and the Barry. I was a gunner on the 40mm and we gave him all we had, shooting off his wings and setting him afire. Nevertheless, he was able to slam into the Barry and hit her right on the bridge. We could not save her so we tried to tow her to Ie Shima. In the middle of the night the Barry started to sink and was pulling our old "Green Dragon" down by the stern. We had a pelican hook rigged and a sailor hit the release and the Barry slipped from our grasp and headed for Davy Jones' Locker.
^ The Naval Historical Center listing gives July 28, 1945, as the date Callaghan sunk. However, Foster (2002, 302-7) makes clear in his book on Callaghan that the kamikaze plane hit and the ship sank in the early morning of July 29, 1945. The account by Parkin (1995, 329-30) confirms this date.
^ The Naval Historical Center listing states that LCS(L)(3)-33 was "sunk by shore batteries off Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 19 February 1945." However, the LCS(L)(3)-33 Action Report dated 4 April 1945 describes the ship's firing at attacking Japanese planes (Rielly 2000, 112), so the ship obviously did not sink off Iwo Jima. Rielly (2000, 125) describes the sinking of LCS(L)(3)-33 on April 12, 1945: LCS(L) 33 fared no better. Under attack by three kamikazes, she downed the first one and had a close miss by the second, which took off her radio antenna before crashing into the sea. Unfortunately, this was not to be her day. A Val struck the starboard side of the 33, setting her on fire. The call to abandon ship was made and the crew went into the water. Number 33 continued to circle slowly to port before she blew up and sank in front of her crew. One of Rielly's sources for the above account is Action Report - LCS(L)(3)-57, Battle of Okinawa at Radar Picket Station # 1, 12 April, 1945 - 15 April, 1945. The LCS(L)(3)-57 was at the same picket station as the LCS(L)(3)-33 on April 12, 1945.
^ Warner (1982, 328) gives the date of the sinking as April 6, 1945. However, the Naval Historical Center listing and the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships indicate that LST-447 sank on April 7, 1945, following a kamikaze attack.
^ The Naval Historical Center listing states that USS St. Lo was sunk by Japanese aircraft on October 25, 1944, but there is no mention of kamikaze. However, several sources (e.g., Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships; Inoguchi 1958, 59; Warner 1982, 106-8) describe the sinking of St. Lo when a Zero carrying a bomb hit the escort carrier.

[1] The Naval Historical Center listing states that Barry (APD-29) was "damaged by Kamikaze attack off Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 25 May 1945, and sunk as a decoy, 21 June 1945." This description does not make clear how Barry sank on June 21, 1945.
The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships describes the sinking as follows:
Barry was towed to the anchorage at Kerama Retto 28 May and found too extensively damaged to warrant repair or salvage. Stripped of useful gear, she was decommissioned 21 June 1945. Later in the day she was towed from the harbor of Kerama Retto to be used as a decoy for the kamikazes. While under tow she was attacked by Japanese suicide planes and sunk along with her escort, LSM-59.
There is another account of the sinking:
Kimball (2007), crewmember of fleet tug USS Lipan (ATF-85), tells the story of the sinking of Barry by a kamikaze plane:
The USS Barry was an old four-stacker Destroyer commissioned around 1920 and modernized and converted into a high-speed troop transport and reclassified as an APD. It took some hits and was intentionally run up on the beach to avoid sinking in deep water and it spent sometime just sitting there. The High Command was experimenting with methods of defending against the relentless kamikaze attacks by the Japanese pilots and it was decided to use the Barry as a decoy to attract the suicide pilots. Since Barry was stripped of all usable equipment its hulk was expendable. Lipan's divers put a soft patch on the hull of the Barry and its interior was filled with empty sealed 5" ammo containers. It was hoped the sealed containers would act as flotation gear and make the Barry less vulnerable to sinking from direct hits. The Barry was fitted with remote controlled flashing lights that looked like anti-aircraft gun muzzle flashes from the air. It also had smudge pots placed at strategic locations and remotely controlled to simulate stack smoke and damage from attacks. From the air it looked like a fully operational Destroyer and it was intended to draw the kamikaze pilots to it and away from the nearby manned vessels. The LSM contained the remote controls for the Barry's pseudo weapons and Lipan was to tow the Barry to simulate an underway tin can. It didn't take long before two kamikaze planes appeared just ten feet off the water equipped with huge bombs strapped to their belly to create a gigantic explosion when they slammed into a vessel. To our dismay, the first attacking Japanese plane slammed into the small LSM 59 and hit it directly amidships. The resultant explosion blew the ship into the hereafter and there was not one recognizable part left floating and at least sixty sailors met their demise. We hadn't anytime to think as the second kamikaze climbed straight up to make a dive on us and the Barry. I was a gunner on the 40mm and we gave him all we had, shooting off his wings and setting him afire. Nevertheless, he was able to slam into the Barry and hit her right on the bridge. We could not save her so we tried to tow her to Ie Shima. In the middle of the night the Barry started to sink and was pulling our old "Green Dragon" down by the stern. We had a pelican hook rigged and a sailor hit the release and the Barry slipped from our grasp and headed for Davy Jones' Locker.

[2] The Naval Historical Center listing gives July 28, 1945, as the date Callaghan sunk. However, Foster (2002, 302-7) makes clear in his book on Callaghan that the kamikaze plane hit and the ship sank in the early morning of July 29, 1945. The account by Parkin (1995, 329-30) confirms this date.

[3] The Naval Historical Center listing states that LCS(L)(3)-33 was "sunk by shore batteries off Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 19 February 1945." However, the LCS(L)(3)-33 Action Report dated 4 April 1945 describes the ship's firing at attacking Japanese planes (Rielly 2000, 112), so the ship obviously did not sink off Iwo Jima. Rielly (2000, 125) describes the sinking of LCS(L)(3)-33 on April 12, 1945: LCS(L) 33 fared no better. Under attack by three kamikazes, she downed the first one and had a close miss by the second, which took off her radio antenna before crashing into the sea. Unfortunately, this was not to be her day. A Val struck the starboard side of the 33, setting her on fire. The call to abandon ship was made and the crew went into the water. Number 33 continued to circle slowly to port before she blew up and sank in front of her crew. One of Rielly's sources for the above account is Action Report - LCS(L)(3)-57, Battle of Okinawa at Radar Picket Station # 1, 12 April, 1945 - 15 April, 1945. The LCS(L)(3)-57 was at the same picket station as the LCS(L)(3)-33 on April 12, 1945.

[4] Warner (1982, 328) gives the date of the sinking as April 6, 1945. However, the Naval Historical Center listing and the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships indicate that LST-447 sank on April 7, 1945, following a kamikaze attack.

[5] The Naval Historical Center listing states that USS St. Lo was sunk by Japanese aircraft on October 25, 1944, but there is no mention of kamikaze. However, several sources (e.g., Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships; Inoguchi 1958, 59; Warner 1982, 106-8) describe the sinking of St. Lo when a Zero carrying a bomb hit the escort carrier.

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