Story also posted on Fold3.com Leo Nicholas survived one sinking but was KIA by a kamikaze on the USS Hadley. Leo Arnold Nicholas was among the thousands of young men who enlisted in the Navy after the attack at Pearl Harbor. He was born February 20, 1917, in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He was 24 when he enlisted on 15 December 1941in …
Kamikaze pilot’s documents have been translated
This document was found on the Kamikaze pilot who crashed into the Hadley. The translation printed alongside document is in quotes below. On 25 May 1945 a work party was sent down into flooded engine room of the Hadley. They were to recover the bodies of five shipmates. It had taken two weeks to patch the hull and pump …