The “Graveyard Shift”: The Most Dangerous Place off Okinawa
The “Graveyard Shift”: The Most Dangerous Place off Okinawa USS Morrison (DD-560) underway, in a photo taken from USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73). Another aircraft carrier can be seen in the distance. National Archives photograph, USN 243852. The mass assaults by kamikazes against the Fifth Fleet off Okinawa, although doing severe damage to ships and their crews, was not the …