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. . . Later on that month, and early April, BENN earned her two lucky golden horseshoes. The first was accounted for when a lone Japanese plane broke a low cloud cover and dived at her. The plane made a perfect run of the ship at a 300-foot altitude. No bombing! No strafing'! Nothing! lt seemed that either his bomb release failed, or a would-be Kamikaze lost his nerve. The second horseshoe was painted on after an escape from another enemy plane which attacked during recovery operations. The enemy plane ioined the landing circle aft, and was stopped iust short of the fantail by 20mm and 40mm gunfire. One of BENN'S high points during the war years was her part in efforts to sink Japan's last big battle- ship, the Yamato. When the battleship was spotted moving through the Inland Sea in April, BENN launched 27 heavily-armed aircraft, the first wave of about 300 aircraft. After the attack was over, the Yamato was observed dead in the water. She later exploded and sank. BENN'S flight deck was buckled by a typhoon in early June. Despite storm damage, however, she was still able to continue air operations. Eventually, she arrived at San Pedro Bay at Leyte, P.l., for storm damage repair. Japan's defenses were becoming steadily weaker and weaker as Allied pounding pushed them back. Soon, news arrived of the presence of atomic bombs in the U.S. arsenel. The surrender occurred on board the USS MISSOURI on September 2. As the Japanese departed with their orders, 400 B-29s and 1,500 carrier planes, led by BENNINGTON fighters and bombers, was the ' ' d f'nale to World War ll. composition for a fitting gran i
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