HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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Blitzkrieg
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Kamikaze
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Air raid pilots Option 3 (optional)
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Trench Warfare
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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. The practice was most prevalent from theBattle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944, to the end of the war.
Detailed explanation-2: -During World War II, nearly 3, 000 kamikaze pilots were sacrificed. About 14% of kamikaze attacks managed to hit a ship.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -"I was disoriented, I felt powerless, I lost my sense of self, as if my soul was pulled out of me, ‘’ he recalled. “As kamikaze pilots, we were all prepared to die, so when I heard that we were defeated, I felt like the bottom had fallen out of my world."