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Kamikaze - Wikipedia Kamikaze aircraft were pilot-guided explosive cruise missiles, either purpose-built or converted from conventional aircraft Pilots would attempt to crash their aircraft into enemy ships in what was called a "body attack" (tai-atari) in aircraft loaded with bombs, torpedoes or other explosives
Kamikaze | Pilots Aircraft | Britannica Kamikaze (‘divine wind’), 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 the Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944, to the end of the war
Japanese Kamikazes: Heroic or Horrifying? | HowStuffWorks When Mongol emperor Kublai Khan sent his naval fleets to attack Japan in the 13th century, fierce winds twice repelled the invasions The Japanese considered these storms direct gifts from the gods and called them " kamikaze " The most common translation of the word is "divine wind "
KAMIKAZE: An Untold History | NHK WORLD-JAPAN On the Pacific front towards the end of World War II, Japan's imperial armed forces launched "kamikaze" attacks, or suicide missions by aircrafts laden with bombs
Who were the fanatical kamikaze pilots of WWII and how deadly were they . . . In the final stages of the Second World War in the Pacific, Japan used extreme measures as Allied forces moved closer to the home islands Among these measures was the creation of kamikaze units, whose pilots carried out suicide missions that involved crashing their planes into enemy ships
KAMIKAZE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster In World War II Japanese pilots who were willing to give up their lives to help save their country by destroying American ships were the members of a special corps named kamikaze after the storm that had saved Japan seven centuries earlier
World War II Terms to Know: Kamikaze - pearlharbor. org A kamikaze attack is a deliberate suicide mission carried out by Japanese pilots during World War II, where the aircraft is used as a guided missile to destroy Allied ships
Kamikazes: Understanding the Men behind the Myths In the western military tradition, the popular, common understanding of the Japanese kamikaze of the Second World War inspires images of lone, suicidal modern-day flying samurai knights devoid of empathy with a seemingly fanatical and inhuman desire to die for their emperor
How Japans Kamikaze Attacks Become a WWII Strategy - HISTORY Not until nearly three years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor did Japan adopt suicide aerial attacks as official military strategy On the infamous morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter
Russian Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drones Now Armed With Air-To-Air Missiles Russia has fielded a new version of the Shahed-136 kamikaze drone armed with a single R-60 air-to-air missile In principle, the heat-seeking R-60 would give the one-way attacker a way to engage Ukrainian fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, and creates a deterrent threat, but the effectiveness of this combination is unclear The Sternenko Community Foundation, a Ukrainian non-governmental