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USS Bush (DD-529)
 
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Bush was operating as radar picket ship off Okinawa on the afternoon of 6 April 1945 when she was attacked by three Japanese suicide planes. The first plane hit at the deck level on the starboard side and its bomb or torpedo exploded in the forward engine room. A second suicide plane crashed into the port side of Bush's main deck, starting a large fire and nearly severing the ship. Minutes later a third plane crashed onto the port side just above the main deck. Some of the ship's ammunition caught fire and began to explode. Heavy swells rocked the ship and Bush began to cave in amidships; the ship was abandoned just before she folded and sank. 87 killed or missing; 32 wounded.
 

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Rollin E. (Westy) Westholm, CO w

Photo courtesy of son R. E. "Pete" Westholm, Jr

P.A. Lilly, XO w

Photo courtesy of Ted Mayhugh

Edmond B. Bennett

Photo courtesy of Ted Mayhugh

Albert Sidney Blakely

Photo courtesy of Ted Mayhugh

Albert Dasha Brody w (KIA)

Photo courtesy of Ted Mayhugh

Robert R. Carney w

Photo courtesy of Ted Mayhugh

James and Helen Collinson

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Robert Melvin Cowherd

Photo courtesy of Ted Mayhugh

Edward D. Cregut

Photo courtesy of Ed Cregut

J.M. Cross w (KIA)

Photo courtesy of couisin Shirel L. Tyson

Stanton L. Gallaher

Photo courtesy of Ted Mayhugh

George Scot Hay w (KIA)

Photo courtesy of sister Mary Hay Earl

Moses G. Hubbard

Photo courtesy of widow Elizabeth W. Hubbard-Ovens

Hilliard L. Lubin

Photo courtesy of Ted Mayhugh

Duard Martin

Photo courtesy of Ted Mayhugh

S. R. (Ray) Mayhugh

Photo courtesy of son Ted Mayhugh

Robert F. (Bob) McGrath

Photo courtesy of wife Marie R. McGrath

O.R. (Mac) McKinney

Photo courtesy of wife Lucille G. McKinney

Wesley [w (KIA)] and Mary Ann Northey, 1944

Photo courtesy of Ted Mayhugh

Robert C. Peterson

Photo courtesy of daughter Debra Padfield

(L to R): Walter Koza, Mario Petroni w , Harry Parker w (KIA)

Photo courtesy of Ted Mayhugh

Narvis Robinson

Photo courtesy of daughter Sue Ehresman

John Sandt

Photo courtesy of Ted Mayhugh

Edwin Earl Sechrist Jr.

Photo courtesy of widow Dorothy A. Sechrist

Bob Sharp

Photo courtesy of son Ken Sharp

Bob Shirey

Photo courtesy of Ted Mayhugh

Gilmer Haydon Thomas

Photo courtesy of Ted Mayhugh

Robert W. Thompson

Photo courtesy of Robert W. Thompson

Paul P. Trella w (KIA)

Photo courtesy of sister Margaret A. Bush

Robert F. Wise, Sr.

Photo courtesy of daughter Marilyn Walsh

 

 
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