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Off the Philippines Japanese kamikaze attacks successfully sunk the escort carriers USS St. Lo during the Battle of Leyte Gulf and USS Ommaney Bay during the Invasion of Lingayen Gulf. On 21 February 1945, a kamikaze raid sunk the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and badly damaged the fleet carrier USS Saratoga during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Operation Tan No. 2 (Japanese: 第二次丹作戰, Dainiji Tan Sakusen) was a long-range kamikaze mission directed at the main Allied naval fleet anchorage at Ulithi Atoll in the western Pacific on 11 March 1945 during the Pacific campaign of World War II.
Yokosuka D4Y3 Suisei (Allied code name "Judy") Japanese dive bomber dives on the Essex (November 25, 1944). Kamikaze (神風, literally: "God wind"; common translation: "Divine wind") [kamikaꜜze] ⓘ, official name: Tokubetsu Kōgekitai (特別攻撃隊), Tokkō Tai (特攻隊) or Tokkō (特攻) were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels ...
Nobuo Fujita (藤田 信雄, Fujita Nobuo) (1911 – 30 September 1997) was a Japanese naval aviator of the Imperial Japanese Navy who flew a floatplane from the long-range submarine aircraft carrier I-25 and conducted the Lookout Air Raids in southern Oregon on September 9, 1942, making him the only Axis pilot during World War II to aerial bomb the contiguous United States.
A kamikaze aircraft crashes into a US warship in May 1945. Kamikaze (神風, pronounced [kamiꜜkaze]; ' divine wind ' [1] or ' spirit wind '), officially Shinpū Tokubetsu Kōgekitai (神風特別攻撃隊, ' Divine Wind Special Attack Unit '), were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in ...
On April 11, 1945, a Navy Type 0 carrier fighter of the Kamikaze Special Attack Squadron's 5th Kemmu Squadron (piloted by Flight Sgt. Setsuo Ishino) just before crashing into the USS Missouri On April 12, 1945, a VBIED variant of fighter plane "Hayabusa" (flown by Sub-lieutenant Toshio Anazawa) of the 20th Shimbu Squadron of the Army Special Attack Unit is seen departing from Chiran Army ...
"I would essentially be a kamikaze pilot." It turns out that her father, retired Air Force Col. John Penney, was not piloting United 93, but she had no way of knowing at the time. It would not ...
A number of Allied ships were damaged by Japanese suicide air attacks during World War II.Many of these attacks were by the kamikaze (officially Shinpū Tokubetsu Kōgekitai, "Divine Wind Special Attack Unit"), using pilot-guided explosive missiles, purpose-built or converted from conventional aircraft, by the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific ...