During Operation Kikusui I, the Surface Special Attack Force, consisting of the battleship "Yamato", the light cruiser "Yahagi", and 8 destroyers, under the command of Vice-Admiral Seiichi Itō, left for Okinawa to support ground defense operations there, but were repulsed by over 300 carrier aircraft belonging to Admiral Mitscher's Task Force 58 at Bou-no-Misaki, between Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands, on 7 April; this came to be known in Japan as the Naval Battle of Bou-no-Misaki. The Imperial Japanese Navy lost the battleship "Yamato", the light cruiser "Yahagi", and 4 destroyers. The Japanese military continued air attacks between 8 and 11 April, and on 11 April the aircraft carrier "Enterprise" and the battleship "Missouri" were damaged by "kamikaze" aircraft, and the aircraft carrier "Essex" took hull damage below the waterline.