Shangri La (CV 38) - Naval Cruise Book

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British DD delivers mail. SB2C's on the wing Group 85's onslaught. Kanoya Airfield was hit by over two hundred fighter planes and with nearly as many revetments on the field there was almost a target for each plane. Striking swiftly before an alerted field with bristling antiaircraft defense, the planes damaged many planes on the ground, departing after setting numerous fires and cratering the airstripes. Downed aviators were greeted by four types of rescue workers that-day- one plane was picked up by friendly submarine, another by destroyer, a third by OSZU Ccarrier or battleship observation planesj and the fourth by a plucky Dumbo pilot who flew into Kagashima Wan, within sight of enemy air fields and gun batteries, to pick up his charge. With the remnants of a 120,000-troop enemy garrison penned up on the southern tip of Okinawa, the Shcmgri-La headed south for Leyte, P. l. The bloody campaign for the tiny phosphate deposit on the road to Tokyo was almost at an end-the ocean depths off Okinawa had received an untold num- ber of shipmates from the vessels of the Fifth and Third Fleet. The island score- board registered an additional sixteen enemy planes but Air Group 85 was short ten pilots and nineteen planes.