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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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Ed Coyne, USS Intrepid (CV-11)

Ed Coyne was on board USS Intrepid when it was hit by two kamikazes on November 25, 1944. He lost many friends that day. Fifty-eight years later, he shared his experiences for the high school students working on Day of the Kamikaze.

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“We were young people remember,”

Ed Coyne on Intrepid Sea•Air•Space Museum	Ed Coyne in 1945

“We were young people remember, not like we are now, we saw death and destruction. We saw bodies, we saw arms, we saw legs all over the hangar deck. And certain details had to get as much as they could and put it together and then they put them in body bags, canvas bags. And there was no bury-there was-was no burial where you went to the funeral parlor, what have you. They were put in body bags and the next day they were buried at sea. Their family never saw or heard from them again.

“ One thing that I’d like to say about the ship and the crew. The ship never gave up. The crew never gave up. We were well trained by the Navy people and we went through training. And where you’re scared? Sure you were scared. Nobody wants to die. But you always did what you had to do. And you always helped your shipmates or what have you in any way that you could. And, again, it was quite an experience. We’re the lucky ones. We lived through it. We got to get home in the United States, we got raise our families, we got take a career, whatever it may be, over the years, and we’re old enough to retire.”