The Probert Encyclopaedia of Aircraft

KAMIKAZE

Kamikaze were pilots of the Japanese air force in the Second World War who deliberately crash-dived their planes, loaded with bombs, usually on to ships of the American Navy. A special force of suicide pilots was established 1944 to crash-dive planes, loaded with bombs, onto American and British ships. The first kamikaze attack occurred on the 27th of May 1944 and involved four Kawasaki Ki-45 aircraft which attacked allied shipping off the coast of New Guinea.
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