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On August 1, 1945, at Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, the USS KIDD was completing repairs after the April 11 kamikaze strike off Okinawa that killed thirty-eight crewmen. Most of the crew were ashore on their last stateside liberty, while those remaining prepared the ship for the war's final campaign, the invasion of Japan, after a battle at Okinawa in which more than three hundred and fifty ships had been sunk or damaged. The dead from the April 11 action off Okinawa included officers and enlisted men of the USS KIDD: George P. Grieshaber, Robert A. Berwick, Dorsey C. Bridgewater, Addison F. Smith, Sylvester W. Hansen, John F. Hamilton, Morgan A. Payne, James C. Carmody, Felix P. D'Amico, William M. Abernathy, Jack L. Walsh, Eugene E. Gothreau, Richard W. Hyde, Solomon Thompson, Charles E. Green, Bernard Gutterman, Milford A. Paufaw, James N. Olen, Charles W. Holwhite, Clifford A. Hoeft, Clifford E. Kemmerer, Robert F. Walker, John W. Canada Jr., Louie C. Higginbotham, Lester B. Hodges, Harold G. Kelsey, George R. Khaisinger, William J. Wall, Lawrence Bynog, Frederic B. Heaton, Dennis M. Kornoski, Virgile A. Henson, Charles K. Jenkins, Bernard V. Kostelnik, Arthur Lee, Russell J. Leonard, John Miller Jr., and Darvin R. Lee.
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