Laffey damage pictures taken by Lonnie Eastham, S1/c
Seattle, Washington
May 24, 1945

 

View from the fantail looking forward

 

Another close-up of Mount #53

 

What was left of my berthing compartment

 

Our deck force retrieved this Japanese suicide boat at Okinawa
and made it into a personal boat for our Commanding Officer,
Commander Frederick Julian Becton