Amateur 8mm Film Of Kamikaze Attacks In Pacific 1945
Explanation with video:
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.
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My father was there. “3 times a day they came” that was his quote.
Said it was unbelievable. The noise of gunfire planes explosions. Unreal.
His ship had 7 confirmed kills.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:24 amI was visiting a beautiful part of the world not too far from the South Pacific a couple years ago and, as an American, was asked about the war in Iraq. Specifically, how we expected to win when facing an enemy that was willing to commit suicide for their beliefs. I made mention that this isn’t the first time the US has faced suicide bombers. You know, Kamikazes. I then had to explain that a Kamikaze was more than just a
and that the Japanese actually had pilots trained to commit suicide by flying into US Ships. Do you think they believed me? Nope. Just more American propaganda. That’s what we Americans were told.
I encounter that type of historical ignorance all the time when dealing with people of foreign lands under the age of 30. Their history books have been scrubbed clean so they don’t think ill of other cultures, save America. But the woman I was talking to was over 40, maybe even in her early 50’s. I couldn’t believe it. This abject ignorance of the history of the world is what, in part, contributes to Anti-Americanism internationally.
May we never forget.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:38 ami once did a research paper on the kamikaze in high school, what was most amazing about them is the commander who originally proposed the idea, when first rejected, proceeded to get in a plane, flew off crashed it in to a ship and sank it, hell of a pitch…my research was full of crazy stories like that, like the suicide sub engineer who died while testing the sub, and who while he sat on the bottom of the ocean running out of air, took time to make elaborate notes on how the design failed…wild stuff…most effective weapon they had in the final years of the war.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:58 pmSounds like they listen to the BBC. It’s right up there with the CBC(Canadian) and is heard by a very large majority of the world.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:22 amThe irony is that today, it is easier than ever before to get information from all over the world. You can sit at your computer and find out for yourself what is going on right now all over the planet. And yet people seem to be more inclined to dismiss facts as “US propaganda” or what-not.
June 13th, 2008 at 7:23 amWhen I was in high school, our history teacher brought in our school’s security guard to talk to us one day.
He had been a gunner on a battleship or a carrier, I forget which. He had been firing on a kamikaze coming right at him. The plane took out a gantry about 12 feet above his head and crashed into the deck of the ship, obviously crippling the ship, but not sinking it. I wish I could describe it as vividly as he had, and that I could have had such an appreciation for it back then as I do now.
He was firing a big gun that had a harness that rested over his shoulders. He said that during a battle, he would be standing there firing for hours, and that they would bring him sandwiches that he would eat while firing.
What an amazing bunch of guys.
June 14th, 2008 at 3:24 pm