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The crew of veteran minehunter HMS Cattistock are gearing up for a stint in the Gulf with extensive training off Scotland. They are being put through their paces in Firth of Clyde ready to take over the sister ship HMS Middleton this summer.

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The high-speed transport (converted from a Clemson-class destroyer) USS Barry was decommissioned in 1945 after being severely damaged by a kamikaze near Okinawa. Because the ship’s silhouette above the main deck was intact, the Barry was towed to sea as a decoy to lure the kamikaze away from more valuable targets. Within hours, a suicide pilot took the bait and smashed into the Barry. The Barry sank but had absorbed a hit that could have destroyed another fighting ship.