Kamikaze attack on the USS Missouri (BB-63). About to be hit by a Japanese A6M “Zero” kamikaze while operating off Okinawa on 11 April 1945. The plane hit the ship’s side below the main deck causing minor damage and no casualties on board the battleship. A 40 mm quad gun mount’s crew is in action in the lower foreground. The kamikaze on the photo has been identified as either Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class Setsuo Ishino or Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class Kenkichi Ishii.
