USS ESSEX based TBMs and SB2Cs dropping bombs on Hokadate, Japan.  July 1945.  (Navy)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  080-G-490232
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1238

Navy Planes Bombing Japan

USS BUNKER HILL hit by two Kamikazes in 30 seconds on 11 May 1945 off Kyushu.  Dead - 372.  Wounded - 264.  (Navy)
NARA FILE #:  080-G-323712
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  980

Kamikaze Attacks on USS Bunker Hill

Task Force 58 raid on Japan.  40mm guns firing aboard USS HORNET on 16 February 1945, as the carrier's planes were raiding Tokyo.  Note expended shells and ready-service ammunition at right.  February 1945.  Lt. Comdr.  Charles Kerlee.  (Navy)
NARA FILE #:  080-G-413915
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1239