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"Kamikaze" attacks are often portrayed as useless insane measures by the Japanese to turn the tide of the war in the Pacific, yet the question is were the attack of the Special Attack Corps just insane simple ramming attacks or was it a rational choice based on experience in combination with tactics?
Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of the book Friedman, Norman: Fighters over the Fleet from Naval Institute Press for Content Production. (see sources below for further information)
Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of the book Friedman, Norman: Fighters over the Fleet from Naval Institute Press for Content Production. (see sources below for further information)
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Depends so much on cultural perspective. We should ask ourselves this; if in 1944, the Germans were landing on Virginia Beach, and the Japanese were already in San Francisco...just what would our military have opted for if the A-bomb hadn't panned out? If it cost twenty fighter-bombers to sink a carrier, along with their crews...but one pilot and plane could do the same job, at some point, you reach a level where the loss is imminent, and only the economy of scale is relevant. We "know" how history played out. We ask ourselves why these young men would willingly die rather than wait for the impending surrender. Easy...because they didn't know how it would end.
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Once again we are looking at a subject with our culture standards beliefs.
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