Her repairs completed on April 10, 1945, "Louisville" delivered Admiral Halsey's 50 officers and 100 staff to the battleship at Guam and "Louisville" returned to the Pacific to join TF 54 in providing gunfire support for ground forces on Okinawa. On June 5, 1945, she was again hit by a "kamikaze"(initially identified as a friendly plane). Four twin 20 AA cannon opened up to set the "kamikaze" ablaze prior to hitting "Louisville" which killed eight sailors on a quad 40 mm AA gun mount, injured 45 sailors, bent the number 1 smoke stack and cut "Louisville"s seaplane off and left only the pontoon on the catapult. "Louisville" was back on the gun line by 9 June, to remain on station until ordered back to Pearl Harbor for repairs on 15 June.