Service with 5th Fleet, Admiral Spruance USS Wisconsin (BB-64)

wisconsin escorting essex-class aircraft carriers in pacific ocean during world war ii. tail crane used recover reconnaissance planes launched wisconsin.

while tf 58 s planes dealing yamato , escorts, enemy aircraft attacked american surface units. combat air patrols (cap) shot down 15 enemy planes, , ships gunfire shot down three, not before 1 kamikaze attack penetrated cap , screen crash on flight deck of fleet carrier hancock. on 11 april, japanese renewed kamikaze attacks; , drastic maneuvers , heavy barrages of gunfire saved task force. combat air patrols shot down 17 planes, , ships gunfire shot down 12. next day, 151 enemy aircraft attacked tf 58, wisconsin, other units of screens vital carriers, kept kamikaze pilots @ bay , destroyed them before reach targets. on days ensued, japanese kamikaze attacks managed crash 3 carriers—intrepid, bunker hill , enterprise—on successive days.

by 4 june, typhoon swirling through fleet. wisconsin rode out storm unscathed, 3 cruisers, 2 carriers, , destroyer suffered serious damage. offensive operations resumed on 8 june final aerial assault on kyūshū. japanese aerial response virtually nonexistent; 29 planes located , destroyed. on day, 1 of wisconsin s floatplanes landed , rescued downed pilot carrier shangri-la.