"I was down 'A' boiler room and that's the boiler room that was affected by the Kamikaze, because all the oil fuel and the fumes and the everything all fell over into the fan platters of the boiler room. And ah, not knowing what had happened we just automatically closed the boiler down."

"And the plane sort of made a dive into the bridge. And of course, if you hit the bridge of a ship, particularly of a warship, a lot of damage done, in direction finder, range finders and what have you. Our, literally our gun control was knocked out of action."

STOKER BILL WILLIAMS