A suicide plane's sudden crash into the USS Nashville turned the cruiser into an inferno of flames and exploding ammunition and exacted a devastating physical and mental toll on her crew.

A kamikaze attack typically involved a Japanese plane streaking down through bursts of antiaircraft fire and lines of tracers to crash into a ship. But it could also occur virtually without warning. That was the case on 13 December 1944 when a lone Japanese Zeke unexpectedly appeared out of a low-hanging cloud and slammed into the USS Nashville (CL-43).

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