<Dd> Approximately 2,800 Kamikaze attackers sank 34 Navy ships, damaged 368 others, killed 4,900 sailors, and wounded over 4,800 . Despite radar detection and cuing, airborne interception, attrition, and massive anti-aircraft barrages, 14 percent of Kamikazes survived to score a hit on a ship; nearly 8.5 percent of all ships hit by Kamikazes sank . </Dd> <P> Australian journalists Denis and Peggy Warner, in a 1982 book with Japanese naval historian Sadao Seno (The Sacred Warriors: Japan's Suicide Legions), arrived at a total of 57 ships sunk by kamikazes . Bill Gordon, an American Japanologist who specialises in kamikazes, lists in a 2007 article 47 ships known to have been sunk by kamikaze aircraft . Gordon says that the Warners and Seno included ten ships that did not sink . He lists: </P> <Ul> <Li> three escort carriers: USS St. Lo, USS Ommaney Bay, and USS Bismarck Sea </Li> <Li> 14 destroyers, including the last ship to be sunk, USS Callaghan (DD - 792) on 29 July 1945, off Okinawa </Li> <Li> three high - speed transport ships </Li> <Li> five Landing Ship, Tank </Li> <Li> four Landing Ship Medium </Li> <Li> three Landing Ship Medium (Rocket) </Li> <Li> one auxiliary tanker </Li> <Li> three Canadian Victory ships </Li> <Li> three Liberty ships </Li> <Li> two high - speed minesweepers </Li> <Li> one Auk class minesweeper </Li> <Li> one submarine chaser </Li> <Li> two PT boats </Li> <Li> two Landing Craft Support </Li> </Ul> <Li> three escort carriers: USS St. Lo, USS Ommaney Bay, and USS Bismarck Sea </Li>

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