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The Americans

USS CABOT
(CVL-28)

USS ESSEX
(CV-9)

USS HANCOCK
(CV-19)

USS INTREPID
(CV-11)

 

The Japanese

The Kamikazes

A6M Zero

D4Y SUISEI

IJN Kumano

IJN Yasoshima

 

Narrated By

Marvin Scott

 

Historical Advisor

Michael Marmé, PH.D.
Fordham University,
New YORK, NY

 

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USS Cabot (CVL-28)

Like the other ships of the Third Fleet, USS Cabot's crew went to mess at 1200 Hours. At 1230 the general quarters alarm sounded. Twenty minutes later, the first of two kamikazes hit the port side near the number two 20-millimeter gun gallery. Howard Skidmore and his crew, waiting to take off on Cabot's only catapult, saw his plane’s fuselage “bathed in flame” as the kamikaze killed many in the gun crew and blew the propeller off of Skidmore's TBM Avenger. Five minutes later the second kamikaze came in, striking the waterline below a 20-millimeter gun gallery. Many marines were killed when the kamikaze disintegrated.

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USS Cabot History

Gene Masucci's Recollections of November 25, 1944

Frances Choi’s Comments on Gene Masucci

Two Kamikazes in Five Minutes

Skidmore and his crew were able to escape, but thirty-five of Cabot's crew were killed and forty-four were wounded. Cabot had to steam for Ulithi to make repairs. Later Admiral Halsey praised the ship for their efforts to control the fire.

Quartermaster Gene Masucci was on the bridge during the entire attack. Responsible for keeping the ship's log, Masucci documented Cabot's agony on that day. Fifty-eight years later, Mr. Masucci shared his experiences with the high school students in Day of the Kamikaze, on board Intrepid Air-Sea-Space Museum.

USS Cabot at 1256 Hours, November 25, 1944

USS Cabot was near-missed by a kamikaze during the Okinawa in June 1945. The explosion of the suicide plane at her stern caused some damage to her after 40mm mount.

USS Cabot Killed In Action

Salvatore Andrews, S2c
Jason L. Austin Jr., Phom2c
Samuel E. Axtell, S1c
Gerald G. Bennett, Qm2c
Gerald M. Biederman, S2c
Sgt. Major L. J. Camp, USMC
James F. Clark, S1c
Everett H. Dagger, Bm1c
Hjalmar M. Davidson, Amm2c
Howard R. Evans, S1c
Louis A. Gusline, S2c
Ray Gryzb, S2c
Raymond A. Johnson, Gm3c
James A. Jones, S1c
William Kadar, S1c
Clement V. Lavin, S2c
Ceaser C. Leonello, S2c
Frank J. Lyons, Ens.
John E. Madden, S2c
Arthur G. Martinez, S2c
James E. Merrell Jr., S2c
Robert R. Metz, S2c
Francis X. Mcgee, S2c
Ramond N. Michaud, Gm3c
Richard D. Moore, S1c
Robert F. Fitzgerald, S1c
George H. Morton, Jr., S2c
Bill C. Nelson, Gm3c
Ulysses S. Nonemacher, S1c
Joseph F. Pieja, S2c
Henry M. Pucke1t, Gm3c
Raymond N. Skey, S1c
Leonard J. Stickler, Gm3c
Francis L. Tuke, Coxswain
John T. Wheeler, Lt.