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Apr 22, 2021 · No. Japan should have avoided direct war with the US, as a question of national survival. Kamikazes were not going to help in the long run. They were only a symptom of Japan's hopeless "strategy" of inflicting unpalatable losses on the US and forcing the US to accept a draw and ceasefire.
Mar 17, 2014 · One such pilot, Lt. I. I. Ivanov, was made a Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously for driving his plane into a German He-111 bomber. A month later, a female pilot named Yekaterina Zelenko brought down a Messerschmitt fighter with her plane, the only woman to have performed a ramming mission in the war. In total, 270 Soviet pilots intentionally ...
Mar 18, 2022 · The first kamikaze force of October 25, 1944 was composed of 24 volunteer pilots from Japan’s 201st Navy Air Group, and their targets were U.S. escort carriers. One of those vessels, the Casablanca -class escort USS St. Lo (AVG/ACV/CVE-63) was struck by an A6M Zero fighter, and became the first major warship sunk as the result of such an attack.
Aug 22, 2023 · The Kamikaze pilot did not need to be as well trained as the regular operational pilot. So the Japanese could recruit & train larger numbers of low-skilled pilots to man their suicide air units ...
Sep 25, 2022 · Last flight: Why did one young Japanese woman join her pilot husband on kamikaze mission? A Japan tea master's wish for peace (Pt. 2): Devoting his life to comrades lost in war
May 4, 2024 · In fact, the most efficient Japan ever got were the Kamikaze, it was very effective against the US Fleet. So, if every Kamikaze did their job, yes, the US could had loose their fleets. But thats just mean the war would had been longer.
By Mason B. Webb. At exactly 9:58 am, on May 11, 1945, a Japanese kamikaze pilot named Kiyoshi Ogawa radioed his base 350 miles away that he had spotted the American fleet lying off the coast of Okinawa. With Ogawa was a formation of 18 dive-bombers, all of the other pilots either eager, or resigned, to die for the emperor in a suicide mission.
