How The USS Bunker Hill Survived 2 Kamikaze Attacks

How The USS Bunker Hill Survived 2 Kamikaze Attacks

A Story of Survival On May 11, 1945, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill was 70 miles off the coast of Okinawa. At 10 am, although its flight deck was full of planes, a Japanese kamikaze emerged from the clouds and crashed into the Bunker Hills flight deck. Seconds later, a second kamikaze appeared, plunging itself into the aircraft carrier. The second plane also dropped a bomb on the ship before flying into the aircraft carrier. The combinatio…