Operation Kikusui
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Operation Kikusui was a series of mass suicidal air attacks by Imperial Japanese naval and army air forces during the Battle of Okinawa against Allied fleets in the waters around Okinawa.
US Navy aircraft carrier Enterprise struck by kamikaze aircraft
Royal Navy aircraft carrier Formidable set ablaze by kamikaze attacks
United States Navy aircraft carrier Bunker Hill set ablaze by kamikaze attacks
Escort carrier
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The escort carrier or escort aircraft carrier, also called a "jeep carrier" or "baby flattop" in the United States Navy or "Woolworth Carrier" by the Royal Navy, was a small and slower type of aircraf
Escort carrier HMS Audacity
USS Gambier Bay, burning from earlier gunfire damage, is bracketed by a salvo from a Japanese heavy cruiser (faintly visible in the background, center-right) shortly before sinking during the Battle off Samar.
Model of the Casablanca-class Gambier Bay at USS Midway museum