English: The U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Bowers (DE-637) arriving in the Kerama Retto, Ryukyu Islands, under her own power after being hit by a Kamikaze on 16 April 1945. Wreckage of the plane, a Nakajima Ki-43 (Allied code name "Oscar"), can be seen embedded in the the ship's bridge face. Note Bowers' very unusual paint, with traces of Camouflage Measure 31 or 32, Design 16D, showing through Camouflage Measure 22. The ship may have been undergoing repainting at the time she received this damage.
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|Description = USS ''Bowers'' (DE-637) with crashed Japanese [[Nakajima Ki-43]] on the bridge.
|Source = [http://www.navsource.org/archives/06/637.htm Navsource]
|Date = 1945-04-16
|Author = US Navy (photo