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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Dennis Hevesi / The Bulletin
October 2, 2011
It was midmorning on May 11, 1945, near the Japanese island of Kyushu when the USS Bunker Hill, an aircraft carrier with dozens of planes and vast stores of fuel and ammunition on its flight deck, was struck by two kamikaze planes in suicide attacks within minutes of each other.
Lt. Cmdr. Joseph....
