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On 6 January 1945,
Allen M. Sumner moved into Lingayen Gulf to support minesweeping
operations. Around noon, her unit came under air attack by aerial kamikazes.
The first plane retreated from heavy antiaircraft fire while the second
attacker acted as a decoy to mask a suicide run in by a third. This plane
dived out of the sun on the destroyer's port bow and crashed into her near
the after stack and after torpedo mount. The warship lost 14 men killed and
19 injured.
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