USS BUSH (DD 529)

Mortally Wounded at Okinawa

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This photo (taken by Combat Air Patrol) shows the destroyer USS COLHOUN (DD 801) steaming from the USS BUSH after BUSH was initially struck by a Japanese kamikaze plane April 6, 1945. The BUSH is barely visible due to smoke. A fuel slick can be seen in the water.
Mortally Wounded USS BUSH
COLHOUN was also lost in the same action as both ships received multiple kamikaze hits.

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