As Warren's men watched, horror-stricken, the kamikaze plunged headlong into Zeilin. Warren herself was raked by machine-gun fire from a "friendly" ship. Shells coming from the port quarter pounded the attack transport's port side. One man of her boat group, manning a gun in the cockpit in one of the ship's landing craft, was killed outright. On the flying bridge alone, there were 22 casualties.
