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Paperback Kamikaze: Japanese Special Attack Weapons 1944-45 Book

ISBN: 1849083533

ISBN13: 9781849083539

Kamikaze: Japanese Special Attack Weapons 1944-45

(Book #180 in the Osprey New Vanguard Series)

The destruction of much of the remainder of the Japanese fleet and its air arm in the later half of 1944 left the Japanese Home Islands vulnerable to attack by US naval and air forces. In desperation, the Imperial Japanese Navy proposed using "special attack" formations, a euphemism for suicide attacks. These initially consisted of crude improvisations of conventional aircraft fitted with high-explosive bombs that could be crashed into US warships...

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