POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
RECONSTRUCTION OF JAPANS GOVERNMENT
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Japanese Kamikaze
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Detailed explanation-1: -kamikaze, any of the Japanese pilots who in World War II made deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets, usually ships. The term also denotes the aircraft used in such attacks.
Detailed explanation-2: -This brought the total American casualties from approximately 1, 500 kamikaze attacks to 3, 048 dead or missing and 6, 035 wounded. Of 149 Allied ships hit or sunk by kamikazes during the Battle of Okinawa, 88 were destroyers and destroyer types*, and another 30 were destroyer escorts**.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to a U.S. Air Force webpage: Approximately 2, 800 Kamikaze attackers sank 34 Navy ships, damaged 368 others, killed 4, 900 sailors, and wounded over 4, 800.
Detailed explanation-4: -Kamikaze attacks were a Japanese suicide bombing tactic designed to destroy enemy warships during World War II. Pilots would crash their specially made planes directly into Allied ships.
Detailed explanation-5: -In view of the tide of the war turning beyond Japanese control, air commanders proposed the desperate act of suicide-crashing enemy ships with their planes. The name, Kamikaze, means Heavenly, or Divine, Wind.