On 11 May, "Barber" received orders to assist on a radar picket station north of the anchorage. That destroyer had been hit by two kamikaze planes and two bombs. "Barber" mustered all the hands she could spare to help evacuate the injured from "Hugh W. Hadley" and then to work on saving the damaged warship. The fast transport assumed picket duty north of Ie Shima on the 12th. The enemy never came close by air; but, on 15 May, "Barber" picked up four Japanese soldiers in a raft and later transferred them to an Army boat for internment in an Okinawa camp.