WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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. On October 25, 1944, the Empire of Japan employed kamikaze bombers for the first time.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Divine Wind: Japan’s Kamikaze Pilots of World War II by Author Saul David, PhD. As American ground forces fought for control of Okinawa in the spring of 1945, Japanese Kamikaze pilots wreaked a grim toll on American naval forces.

Detailed explanation-4: -The most effective use of kamikazes was in the battle for Okinawa. Up to 300 aircraft at a time dove at the Allied fleet. Just the anticipation of kamikaze attacks drove some American sailors insane. The destroyer Laffey was attacked by 20 planes at once.