 The next month, "Wilson" again engaged hostile aircraft and shore positions during the Lingayen Gulf invasion.On 16 April 1945, during the campaign for Okinawa, she was hit by a kamikaze, which cost the lives of five of her crewmen and left an unexploded bomb in her after hull.Soon repaired, she served in the Okinawa area until June and operated out of Saipan until the war ended in August.