The Kamikazes

A detailed Summary of The Kamikazes

Kamikaze was a type of Japanese pilot who flew suicide missions during the last months of World War II (1939-1945). The kamikazes were trained to dive airplanes loaded with the explosives into certain targets, usually American naval vessels. They were much like a human bullet. The suicide planes were also called kamikazes.

Japan was desperate when it launched the kamikaze missions. Its military leaders viewed the kamikazes as the last hope of stopping the powerful Allied advance. But the plan didn't work.

The first kamikaze attacks occurred in October 1944, when the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines. More than a thousand kamikazes took part in the defense of Okinawa in 1945. Kamikaze pilots, sacrificing their lives in a last-ditch effort to stop the American advance, sank about 30-40 ships and damaged more than 350 others. They thought the Allied forces would have some trouble because they were losing so many warships. America would've been long time ago. In those days naval vessels were so abundant that the U.S. were having trouble finding enough sailors to man the ship. But the kamikazes failed to sink any large aircraft carriers-their main targets-and in time proved to be a costly failure. They be

The word kamikaze means "divine wind". During the summer of 1281 the Emperor assigned an enormous army of 140,000 troops to the conquest of the Japanese islands. An armada of four thousands ships sailed, once again bound for Hakata Bay to fight the Mongols. Kublai Khan's forces landed. The battle was fought again, and once more the Mongols turned back to the beach. The Japanese fought valiantly, but with the enormous resources of the Mongols breached the defenses. Then, one night almost without warning, a powerful typhoon blew through most of their battle equipment and horses, and drowned thousands of the warriors. As the storm ended, the pitiful remnants of the great fighting force struggled back to Korea. Japan was saved. Once again, the people of Japan gave thanks to the Kami Kaze.

Ryuji Nagasuka, a young and ingenuous schoolboy trained in the dreadful art of crashing an airplane on the decks of an American warship, tells us why he became a kamikaze pilot in I Was A Kamikaze. He did it because he thought his families were in danger. He said that the Japanese did not go voluntarily to their deaths because of any fanatical devotion to the emperor of to atone for any disgrace or defeat. Rather, they sought to protect their loved ones. Because they loved their parents with that deep, shy, reverent, filial love which is now unhappily vanishing from the Japanese character, they chose to die for. For love they were willing to die. To protect the innocent and blameless.

came more important for the kind of resistance they symbolized than for the damage they caused.

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