Kamis, 20 Juli 2017

Japan’s “Stealth” Kamikazes

Deadly suicide attacks by obsolete wooden biplanes threatened to defeat state-of-the-art U.S. radar and gunnery. The carnage was frightful. During the prolonged April-June 1945 fighting in the invasion and capture of Okinawa – the largest land-sea-air battle of World War II – 400 U.S. warships and large landing craft were slammed by Japanese kamikaze suicide …

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