Strike Three - And Still She Floats -- Three times a victim of vicious enemy attack, the valiant light cruiser USS Birmingham 18 back at sea - still afloat inspite of her deep battle riddled like a sleve when the USS Princeton blew up alongside her, the Birmingham suffered her most serious blow off Okinawa on May 4, 1945. Zooming out of the sun in a steep dive, a Kamikaze plane and its 500-pound bomb crashed just aft of the ships' number 2 turret. Forty-five men were killed, six were missing, an