They were called the Kamikaze, which means 'divine wind' (a reference to storms that histrically prevented the invasion of Japan).
Kamikaze pilots flew small planes, with explosives in the nose cone, into Allied ships, sinking or damaging them. It was a last desperate use of inferior planes and pilots with little training, after the wartime losses of carriers, planes, pilots, and weaponry. There was a suicide boat equivalent, the Shin'yō,which saw use during the recapture of the Philippines by US forces in 1944.
Kamikaze is both singular and plural. The operators of the similar suicide submarines were known as Kaiten. Literally Kamikaze means Divine Wind, and Kaiten is untranslatable but roughly Heaven-shaker. Neither term originally meant suicide.
The Japanese also managed a virtual suicidal Task Force: a go-for-broke mission involving a battleship, several destroyers, and a light cruiser. There were some reluctant survivors, late in the second naval battle of Okinawa. One was later an author, Captain Tameichi Hara of the cruiser Yahagi.
Japanese suicide planes were called Kamikazes. Kamikaze means divine wind in Japanese after the strong storm that saved Japan from a massive invasion from Mongolia in the 1200s. These planes were loaded with bombs and fuel to do the nmost damages.
there wasnt a specific plane, it was any kind of plane from a6m zeros or Oscars. they loaded them up with explosives and headed out
Japanese Navy suicide pilots called Kamikazi means "Divine Wind" in Japanese Japanese Army suicide pilots called Tokkotai means "Court Beautiful Death"
Japanese navy suicide pilots means "Divine Wind" in Japanese also called ShinpuJapanese Army suicide pilots called Tokkotai "court beautiful death"Japanese pilots who flew their planes on suicide missions against ships .
I doubt that they invented it, but Japanese kamikaze pilots used the technique in WWII.
Its when you kick someone on the opposite team in the balls. That's called "suicide".
They were called Kamikazi pilots. They did sink around 28 American ships and damage many more during the Okinawa campaign.
Kamikaze.
I believe they were called kamikazes.
Japanese Navy suicide pilots called Kamikazi means "Divine Wind" in Japanese Japanese Army suicide pilots called Tokkotai means "Court Beautiful Death"
Japanese navy suicide pilots means "Divine Wind" in Japanese also called ShinpuJapanese Army suicide pilots called Tokkotai "court beautiful death"Japanese pilots who flew their planes on suicide missions against ships .
Kamikaze pilots
The usual word for suicide is jigai.Ritual suicide is called harakiri, done with a sword, or more literally seppuku (stomach cutting).Another form of suicide, that performed after the death of one's master, was called oibara or tsuifuku.
Japanese word for suicide
. During the 1940s during WWII you had the victory roll which was rolled the opposite way. Maybe this is a play on that based on Japanese kamikazes during WWII who were considered by some as suicide airmen.
sepoku or hari kari
It is a Japanese word to begin with. Written 神風 it refers to suicide attacks performed by Japanese pilots to destroy warships of the Allies in WW2.
Kamikaze is the term for Japanese suicide bombers in WWII
A Kamikaze is a Japanese suicide plane filled with bombs