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On April 1, 1945 as West Virginia
operated offshore of Okinawa to provide gunfire support, three enemy planes
were picked up on her radar. One crossed over the port side and then looped
over and crash-dived into West Virginia, smashing into a
superstructure deck just forward of secondary battery director number two.
Four men were killed by the blast, and seven were wounded. The aircraft’s
bomb penetrated to the second deck but did not explode and was disarmed.
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