On April 6, 1945 a 700 plane kamikaze attack sunk and damaged 13 US destroyers and hit a certain number of carriers. During April 1945 kamikaze pilots under Admiral Soema Toyoda launched 1,400 suicide missions as part of Operation Ten-Go. It is estimated that these suicide pilots sunk 26 ships during this campaign. More than 2,000 kamikaze missions were also flown against the US fleet at Okinawa (April-July 1945). By this time the US Navy had learnt how to deal with kamikaze attacks and few ships were hit. Kamikaze pilots continued to be active until the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Admiral Takijiro Onishi, commander of the Special Attack Group, committed suicide when he heard that Emperor Hirohito had surrendered.
This is Unedited 8mm amateur footage.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
AWESOME!: AMATEUR WW II FOOTAGE
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Great stuff. It's funny...our current enemy has simply skipped over the part about fighting like men and have gone straight to the Kamikaze tactics. It's all they've got. It's all they've ever had. Yet the left and the Dirty Liberal Media think we can't beat that. Sick.
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