Pearson, Mullaney and Perkins were critically wounded. Andy, Laster and Monson were burned. All of us were shaken and shocked. 'At Ulithi a damage assessment board came on and the wounded were transferred to the Solace and Samaritan.
... 177, 2–3 Guam, US battle-cruiser 206 Guest, US destroyer 142 Gwin, US destroyer-minelayer 122 HA-106, Japanese submarine 83–84 Haggard, US destroyer 112 Haines, Captain John Meade 80, 101, 140 Haines, Lieutenant-Commander Preston B, ...
In total, more than a thousand kamikaze airmen perished. In Kamikaze, historian Adrian Stewart examines the historic and cultural roots of the unique and unsettling phenomenon.
... Japanese Special Attack Aircraft & Flying Bombs (Mushroom Press: 2009) Lamont-Brown, Raymond, Kamikaze: Japan's ... Divine Thunder: The Life & Death of the Kamikazes (McCall: 1970) Nagatsuka, Ryugi, I Was a Kamikaze (Macmillan: ...
Among these was the Twelfth Air Fleet and its men had already learned of the exploits of the Kamikazes and been uplifted by them. On arrival at Clark Field north of Manila on 26 October, they immediately asked to be incorporated into ...
The classic World War II autobiography describes the horrors of war and the author's brutal training and experiences as a kamikaze pilot.
This book will begin by examining the initial kamikaze aircraft attacks, but the focus of the book will be on the dedicated special attack weapons developed in 1944.
The use of the Japanese Kamikaze pilots during the second world war was one of the most dramatic and chilling developments of the war. But who were the Kamikaze pilots...
Kamikaze: The Wind of God
The legend of the kamikaze has endured for centuries, and was revived as a Japanese national legend during the Second World War, culminating in the suicide bombers they sent to attack the Allies but the truth has remained a mystery.