![]() ![]() So the Japanese pilots figured, if I'm going to most likely die, I might as well make it count. ship, its chances of survival were about 1 out of 10. SAM COX: By that time of the war, our anti-aircraft defenses had become so good that if a Japanese aircraft found a U.S. Navy's Naval History and Heritage Command. Retired Rear Admiral Sam Cox is director of the U.S. About a dozen lookouts were scanning the sky for kamikaze planes, which had become a major threat. ![]() PRICE: On January 4, 1945, Cooper, then 22 years old, was a gunner aboard the USS Ommaney Bay. JAY PRICE, BYLINE: After watching a brief video divers took of the wreckage, 101-year-old Joe Cooper said only one word would do. ![]() The discovery off the coast of the Philippines has special resonance for one man in North Carolina. ships sunk in a World War II kamikaze attack. The Navy has formally identified the wreckage of one of the largest U.S. ![]()
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