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In April 1945, as the Battle of Okinawa raged, hundreds of Japanese kamikaze pilots believed they could break the American fleet with surprise suicide attacks. But instead of helpless transports, they met a new defense: radar picket destroyers armed with advanced radar, coordinated fighter direction, and revolutionary proximity fuzes.

This video explores how those small “tripwire” ships—like USS Laffey, Bush, Evans, and Hadley—detected incoming raids, vectored Hellcat fighters, and turned kamikaze missions into running battles long before the attackers reached the main fleet. Learn how U.S. Navy technology, coordination, and sacrifice transformed naval warfare and saved thousands of lives off Okinawa.

📷 Images: Public-domain and U.S. government photos from Wikimedia Commons

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