Divine Thunder: The Life and Death of the Kamikazes (Wordsworth Military Library) |  | Author: Bernard Millot
Publisher: Wordsworth Military Library
Category: Book
Buy Used: $318.48
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Sales Rank: 10,827,811
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 243
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 1840222417
EAN: 9781840222418
ASIN: 1840222417
Publication Date: February 2002
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Product Description
In the autumn of 1944, as American forces grew stronger in the Pacific, the Japanese were realizing they were outnumbered and resolved to do something drastic. Drawing from a legend 700 years old, about the gods providing a typhoon (or as they called it a "divine wind") for their protection, the Japanese organized "special attack forces" to provide their own man-made divine thunder.. This is an absorbing account of the Japanese Naval Special Attack Suicide Fliers, the "Kamikazes" - squadrons of airplanes that would purposely crash dive into Allied ships, often with devastating results. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, and a bibliography.
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