This page from a published unit history recounts the wartime service of USS LST-808 off Ie Shima during the Okinawa campaign in the spring of 1945. It documents ammunition expenditures, the intensifying kamikaze threat faced by U.S. Navy vessels in May 1945, and reproduces a firsthand war diary account of a kamikaze attack repelled by LST-808 and nearby ships on 6 May 1945. Project: 218321