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The Japanese government saw Kamikaze as a way to turn the tide of the war. They believed that the pilots would be able to inflict significant damage on the enemy, and that their sacrifice would inspire the Japanese people to continue fighting.
Feb 26, 2014 · Japan hopes to immortalise its kamikaze pilots - a squad of young men who crashed their aircraft into Allied ships in World War Two - by seeking Unesco World Heritage status for a collection...
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About one in every five kamikaze planes managed to hit an enemy target. Books and movies have depicted them as crazed suicide bombers who screamed Banzai as they met their end. But interviews with survivors and families, as well as letters and documents, offer a different portrait — of men driven by patriotism, self-sacrifice and necessity.
Apr 22, 2021 · These were pilots of the “Divine Wind Special Attack Force,” named for a typhoon—“a divine wind,” or kamikaze—that destroyed a Mongol invasion fleet bound for Japan in 1281. We recall these men as insane fanatics who committed suicide by plane crash.
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Jan 15, 2024 · Japan’s Kyushu island is home to two moving museums that detail the final thoughts of the young WWII pilots tasked with flying their bomb-laden planes into US warships.
A Japanese World War II naval aviator—the rare survivor of a kamikaze mission because he was shot down and rescued by the crew of a U.S. destroyer 50 years ago—spoke with Naval History Editor Fred L. Schultz at the U.S. Naval Institute headquarters.
Japanese kamikaze pilots are infamous for the suicide missions they carried out during World War Two. Keiichi Kuwahara, 91, recalls how he managed to survive and why he thinks the missions were...
