When Japan Turned Pilots into Weapons: Kamikaze

As defeat loomed, Japan turned to a weapon of desperation, young pilots ordered to crash their planes into Allied ships.

This episode follows the rise of the Kamikaze, from patriotic illusion to horrifying sacrifice, and the terror it unleashed on the seas of 1945.

📚 Sources
• Ohnuki-Tierney, Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History (2002)
• Spector, Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan (1985)
• Inoguchi & Nakajima, The Divine Wind: Japan’s Kamikaze Force in World War II (1958)
• Peattie, Drea & Van de Ven (eds.), The Battle for Japan, 1944–45 (2011)
• Hoyt, Japan’s War: The Great Pacific Conflict 1853–1952 (1986)

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