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The USS Johnston was a navy kamikaze. This little destroyer and a couple other ships charged a bunch of battleships and kept firing even though they knew they could not survive. They were protecting American troops that were landing on the Philippines and they were the only defense. The Japanese were so startled by the valour of these ships that the battleships actually turned around and went back saving the soldiers on the beaches. Start video at 1:30 mark.


https://youtu.be/jFkAeQI7UuQ
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SCPO Morris Ramsey PO3 Bob McCord LT Brad McInnis
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SR Kenneth Beck
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Ernest Edwin Evans (August 13, 1908 – October 25, 1944) was an officer of the United States Navy who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle off Samar in World War II.
Evans, of Native American ancestry (half Cherokee and one quarter Creek), was born in Pawnee, Oklahoma. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1931.
Cmdr. Evans, the only commanding officer the ship ever had, received the Medal of Honor (posthumously) for his “gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his own life above and beyond the call of duty” in the Battle off Samar. “The most inspirational leadership and actions of our Captain,” wrote Lt. Hagen subsequently, “inspired heroic deeds from the entire crew.” Evans was last seen alive, wounded and wearing a life jacket, in the water with other survivors on the night of 25 October 1944. One survivor reported other officers with him, clinging to 4x4-inch timbers, shoring that had evidently drifted off the ship when she sank: Lt. Joseph L. Worling, the engineer officer, a 30-year old “mustang” with a decade of enlisted service, and Lt. Walter P. Deutsch, E-V(G), USNR, 27; both had been with the ship since commissioning. None of the three were seen again.
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/j/johnston-i.html
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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PO1 Tony Holland Still Scratching My Head trying to Figure Out what Part of the Ship I'm Looking At.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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PO3 Bob McCord - Part looked like the Quarterdeck but some looked like the "Crows Nest" Considering the Size of the Ship though, It could be Part of Both.
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This was a brave ship, crew and captain. They literally died fighting as she sank
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