Damage control
was performing radar picket duty off Okinawa on March 26, 1945 when during the morning hours ahe was attacked by two "Val" kamikazes which suddenly plunged down out of the clouds. Despite heavy anti-aircraft fire, one of the planes crashed his burning plane on top an aft gun mount, enveloping the aft of the ship in a fireball and flames. Damage control quickly put the fires out and the ship made for emergency repairs, but twenty seven men had been killed, and another thirty three wounded. "Kimberly" would survive the war to service with the Republic of China Navy until 1999, afterwards she was sunk in 2003 as a target.