Remains of Japanese aircraft tail section
aboard USS KITKUN BAY (CVE 71)

U.S. Navy Photograph

From the personal collection of Gilbert J. Raynor and
the U.S.S. KITKUN BAY Association

"At 1110 fifteen enemy aircraft were sighted....the planes made their attack at 1123, the Judy making a run on this ship approaching from dead astern.   This pilot apparently also had suicidal intent with destruction of the radar mast and island in mind, but was met my effective fire and the plane passed over the island and exploded when opposite the forward end of the flight deck.  Parts of the plane and the pilot were scattered over the flight deck and the forecastle."

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