Cassin Young
was battling multiple attacks from Japanese kamikazes on 12 April 1945 while serving radar picket duty off Okinawa, when at 13:37 a D3A "Val" dove on "Cassin Young" from a steep angle. Defensive anti-aircraft fire hit the plane, detonating its bomb only forty feet above the ship and showering debris and shrapnel over the exposed areas of the destroyer. Although damage was negligible, one man was killed and another fifty-eight wounded, many seriously.