HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Japanese suicide pilots
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German lighten war
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the two atomic bombs dropped in Japan
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surprise submarine attacks by the Japanese
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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: -In a documentary entitled Wings of Defeat, in which several kamikaze pilots who otherwise survived their mission tell their stories, one particularly frank pilot admitted that his first reaction to being told he had to fly the next day was to say “Oh, I’m screwed”.