Found this message in the net on another actually non-WW2 discussion site:

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During the battle for Okinawa -where kamikazees reached their apogee of use- the entire island group was surrounded by a group of ships known as the "radar picket line." Basically these ships used their radar to detect incoming aircraft, and provide early warning.

The actual target of the kamikazees were (or should have been) cruisers, battleships, and carriers. Alas, most of the messengers of the divine winds took the opportunity to attack the first ships they saw; normally the destroyers (or destroyer escorts) of the picket line.

The sailors on one destroyer (AKA "tin cans") -tired of being the target of first opportunity- decided to help out the poor buggers and hung a large sign on the side of their ship: TO JAP PILOTS: CARRIERS THIS WAY! with a very large arrow on it.

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Just wondering if this could be any true?

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