USS Borie (DD-704) was the second ship named for Adolph E. Borie, Secretary of the Navy under President Grant. She was launched at Kearny on 4 July 1944 and commissioned on 21 September 1944. She is the later Borie, not the old destroyer that rammed and sank U-405 in 1943.
She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 4 January 1945 and took part in the Battle of Iwo Jima, both the bombardment on 24 January and the invasion from 19 to 23 February. After joining Task Force 58 she took part in the Tokyo raids of 16 and 17 and 25 February, the Okinawa raid of 1 March, and the raids supporting the occupation of Okinawa from 17 March to 14 May.
From 9 July to 9 August 1945 she served with Task Force 38 in its raids on the Japanese home islands. On 9 August four kamikazes tried to crash into her. One hit the superstructure between the mast and the 5-inch gun director and caused extensive damage, and her rudder was locked. The published history of the ship gives 48 killed and 66 wounded. The other three planes were shot down or missed.
Sources: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) as reproduced on Wikipedia, NavSource Online (commanding officer list), and Wikimedia Commons (photograph record).