Was there a kamikazee at Pearl Harbor attack?

Answer 1

Kamikazes were the result of Japan "running out of TRAINED pilots", and didn't enter the war until about 1944 at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. It takes a YEAR or MORE to train a good combat pilot...and the Battle of Midway took the cream of the crop away from the Imperial Navy in 1942. Japan underestimated the need for a steady stream of combat pilots, not realizing that if a sudden catastrophe should kill off their pilots, as happened at "Midway", they would have to replace them quickly. Of all the fighting men in WW2, the airplane pilots required the most training.

Answer 2

No, that came later in the war.

However, there are anecdotal stories of damaged Japanese planes purposely being guided into high-value targets.

That is a valid point, but with regard to the attack on Pearl Harbor, only about 28 Japanese planes were shot down. I did not read anything about actual 'kamikaze' attacks at Pearl Harbor. It would be logical to think Japanese pilots would crash their damaged plane into a military target. But, actual planned 'kamikaze' attacks did not take place until late in the ward when Japan knew it was losing the war and was very desperate.

These anecdotal stories were not of kamikaze pilots, but, rather, of pilots whose planes were badly damaged and who chose to crash into enemy targets instead of diving into the sea. The idea was that, if their planes were badly damaged and their lives were therefore to be lost anyway, then they would fly into an enemy target instead of crashing into the ocean. These were NOT kamikazes -- they did not have the intention from the beginning of committing suicide. Rather, they agreed to strike an enemy target instead of dying "needlessly" in an ocean crash.

For example, First Lieutenant Fusata Iida told his comrades that he planned to fly into a "worthy enemy target" if his plane was irreparably damaged and the alternative was to crash into the sea. Either way, he would be dead.

This is very different from "kamikaze." Kamikaze missions sent pilots (well trained ones at that) into the air with the sole purpose of crashing into an enemy target -- nothing else. Kamikaze wasn't a last ditch effort on the part of a pilot who was going down anyway. It was a well planned and intentional suicide attack that was orchestrated before the pilot took off from the ground.

Answer 3

There were no Kamikaze pilots at Pearl Harbor. All of the pilots made the attack with the full intention of returning to their carriers.

Answer 4

no,but there is a commander who say that if his plane is badly damaged,then he will crashed into an important target which he did

Answer 5

No