The "Failed" Proximity Fuse That Let One U.S. Cruiser Shoot Down 32 Kamikazes in One Battle
Автор: Underground Chronicles
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March 19th, 1945 — 06:41 hours.
East China Sea.
Task Force 58.
USS Athena (CA-136), a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser barely three months in service, moved through cold gray swells as if the ocean itself were holding its breath.
Lieutenant Commander Harold Wexler stood in the gunnery director, coffee forgotten in his hand, watching radar scopes bloom with new contacts—too many, too fast.
“Holy Mother… they’re coming in low,” Radar Tech Third Class Emilio Vargas muttered. “Dozens… no—scores. Sir, this is Kikusui scale.”
He wasn’t wrong. Ahead of the coming Okinawa landings, the Japanese had unleashed a chain of early kamikaze saturation attacks, testing the Fleet’s response times, scattering picket stations, forcing cruisers like Athena into sudden, violent defensive brawls.
But on Athena, there was a secret advantage—an accident, an anomaly, and in the eyes of Navy Ordnance officials, an outright failure.
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