Lieutenant Harold Demarest stands on the bridge, watching a kamikaze roar towards him.

Below, Gunner Frank McClelland fires the 40mm cannon and hits the suicide plane.

It veers downward, exploding into the ship.

Demarest is alive, a flimsy clipboard shielding his head. Below, Frank McClelland and seventeen others are dead.

Frank McClelland was awarded the Silver Star Posthumously. Harry
Demarest wrote this story about his father, Harold Demarest, who attended
many reunions with his shipmates until his death at age 96.