 From 10 February – 3 March , with the 5th Fleet , Massachusetts guarded carriers during raids on Honshū . Her group also struck Iwo Jima by air for the invasion of that island . On 17 March , the carriers launched strikes against Kyūshū while Massachusetts fired in repelling enemy attacks , splashing several planes . Seven days later , she bombarded Okinawa . She spent most of April fighting off air attacks , while engaged in the operations at Okinawa , returning to the area in June , when she passed through the eye of a typhoon with 100 knots ( 190 km / h ; 120 mph ) winds on 5 June . She bombarded Minami Daito Jima in the Ryukyu Islands on 10 June . 
