Chronology of World War II
Thursday, May 3rd
Kamikaze
Damage
Narrow Escape (May 3, 1945). Photographed at Guam, Army Nurse 1st-Lt Mary Jensen of San Diego, California, looks up through the hole in the concrete and steel deck of the Navy hospital ship
Comfort
, punctured when a Japanese suicide pilot dive-crashed into the ship off Okinawa with his bomb-laden plane. Nurse Jensen, who had stepped out of the main surgery supply room less than one minute before it was completely demolished by the explosion, is standing three decks below where the crash occurred.