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The Divine Wind: The Suicide Fliers -- Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II
The Divine Wind The Suicide Fliers Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II Author:Rikihei Inoguchi, Tadashi NakaJima, Roger Pineau At 10:45 Philippine time, the U.S. escort carrier St. Lo was cruising east of Leyte when it was attacked by a Japanese pilot who deliberately crashed his plane on the ship in a suicide dive. Racked by fire and explosions, the St. Lo sank -- the first victim of a terrifying new kind of air attack. The night October 25, 1944, Imp... more »erial Headquarters in Tokyo announced the formation of the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps. -- named after the "divine wind" that have saved Japan from Mongol invasion centuries before. In the next few months, in a frenzy of desperate courage, 1, 228 Japanese pilots plunged their bomb-laden planes onto the decks of U.S. ships, sinking 34 and damaging 288 with heavy loss of life. The Divine Wind tells the tragic story of these brave pilots.« less