LSM (Landing Ship Medium) 20 sinking in Surigao Straits, 5 December 1944. She was struck by a kamikaze amidships, killing 8 and wounding 9. When Japan was facing defeat in late 1944 it chose to destroy US ships with suicide bombings, known as attacks were a potent physical and psychological weapon and sunk a total of 47 ships at a cost of more than 3000 pilots and planes. By late 1944 the US Navy was large enough that the losses were insignificant and they did not alter the course of the war.

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