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May 11, 2024 · The Nakajima Ki-115a Tsurugi was built as a cheap single-use on-way suicide aircraft to strike American warships. Japan built the Nakajima Ki-115 Tsurugi for kamikaze attacks with cheap materials and massive bombs. The Tsurugi was intended to be a single-use disposable aircraft and was unarmed, easy target. Kamikaze attacks were a last-ditch ...
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Just after noon, a single-engine Japanese aircraft scored a hit on Langley with a glide-bombing attack. Seconds later, a kamikaze swooped out of the clouds and plunged toward Ticonderoga. The aircraft crashed through the ship's flight deck abreast of the No. 2 5 in (130 mm) mount, and its bomb exploded just above her hangar deck.
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May 4, 2024 · There was never a single moment when Japan could have won the war. They started the war out of desperation with a flawed understand of American capabilities and objectives. Pearl Harbor was a Hail-Mary play to take out as many American carriers as possible to force a quick peace on generous terms; they did not manage to sink even one.
May 11, 2024 · By the end of the war, Japan was in a hopeless position and was unable to defend itself from unrelenting waves of devastating B-29 Superfortress bomber raids that were leveling its cities. Desperate to stave off the inevitable American island-hopping march to the Japanese home islands, the Japanese resorted to kamikaze attacks.
3 days ago · In 1975 South Vietnam fell to a full-scale invasion by the North. The human costs of the long conflict were harsh for all involved. Not until 1995 did Vietnam release its official estimate of war dead: as many as 2 million civilians on both sides and some 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters.
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1 day ago · Welcome to War History Online’s World War II category, where we delve into the monumental conflict that shaped the course of the 20th century.Here, we explore the causes, major battles, and enduring legacy of the Second World War, shedding light on the global scale of destruction, the heroic acts of individuals, and the profound social and political changes it brought about.
3 days ago · The term "kamikaze," meaning "divine wind" in Japanese, originally referred to the legendary typhoons that twice saved Japan from Mongol invasion fleets in the 13th century. In the context of World War II, however, it came to be associated with the desperate tactic of deliberately crashing aircraft into enemy ships.
