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    "Kamikaze Memorial Center" on Ikoma, Nara Prefecture. The facilities were destroyed in World War II. To commemorate the 1937 flight of the aircraft, Asahi...
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    About 3,800 kamikaze pilots died during the war, and more than 7,000 naval personnel were killed by kamikaze attacks. Kamikaze aircraft were essentially...
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  • Mammoth Kamikaze or Kamikaze Downhill, a former American downhill mountain bike race Kamikaze (1937 aircraft), a Mitsubishi Ki-15 Karigane aircraft, the...
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    (剣, Sword) - 1945 kamikaze aircraft; in IJN service, it was called Tōka (藤花, Wisteria Blossom) Ki-230 - projected kamikaze aircraft Kikka (橘花, Orange...
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    operational turbojet-powered fighter aircraft while Japan had produced, but not used, motorjet-powered kamikaze aircraft, and had tested and ordered into...
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    A parasite aircraft is a component of a composite aircraft which is carried aloft and air launched by a larger carrier aircraft or mother ship to support...
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  • carriers. The effectiveness of the special attacks ("kamikaze") late in the war using mostly outdated aircraft can also be attributed to pilot determination...
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  • (project only) Ki-200 - army version of J8M Kamikaze aircraft Ki-167 Sakura-dan (Cherry Blossom) - kamikaze version of Ki-67 Hinazuru - license-built Airspeed...
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  • age 24 he gained fame as the pilot on the Kamikaze (神風号, Kamikaze-go), a Mitsubishi Ki-15 Karigane aircraft, (registration J-BAAI) sponsored by the newspaper...
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  • Force 1937–1945. Squadron/Signal 6006. Warren, MI: Squadron/Signal publications. ASIN B0006WGVZA. Francillon, Rene J. (1970). Japanese Aircraft of the...
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    home islands, and transporting aircraft and troops. Along the way, the carriers survived bombs, torpedoes, kamikazes, and typhoons without one ship being...
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  • Bismarck Sea: American escort carrier sunk on 21 February 1945 by kamikaze aircraft during the invasion of Iwo Jima. USS Gambier Bay: American escort...
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    This list of aircraft carriers contains aircraft carriers listed alphabetically by name. An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck...
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    enemy fleets. The airfield was also used for commercial aircraft from 1929 to 1936. From around 1937, the number of military facilities attached to the airfield...
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  • aircraft carrier in Ulithi atoll under the Operation Tan No. 2. Kamikaze Special Attack Group, Kikusui Corps, Ginga Unit (神風特別攻撃隊 菊水部隊 銀河隊,, Kamikaze...
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    task of kamikaze attacks against ships involved in the invasion of Okinawa, Operation Ten-Go, and began training pilots and assembling aircraft for the...
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    Anti-aircraft warfare is the counter to aerial warfare and it includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action"...
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    the war, as the tide turned against Japan, kamikaze pilots were deployed to attempt to crash their aircraft into American and allied ships in the Pacific...
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    Total production amounted to 5,919 aircraft. Many of these were used during the last months of the war for kamikaze missions against the American fleet...
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    Nakajima B5N (redirect from Kate (aircraft))
    used for kamikaze attacks. Type K: Prototype. B5N1: First production model. B5N1-K: Many B5N1s were converted into advanced training aircraft. B5N2: Improved...
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    from the Shaykovka air base. On 7 October 2022 there were reports of a kamikaze drone attack on the air base, destroying two Tu-22M3 bombers. "Полёты на...
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    action on 14 May 1945 when she was struck in the forward elevator by a kamikaze aircraft flown by Japanese pilot Lt. Shunsuke Tomiyasu, which destroyed the...
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    destroyed at least 17 Chinese aircraft in aerial combat while losing five aircraft themselves. On 12 December 1937 Kaga aircraft participated in the Panay...
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    official record for the number of aircraft destroyed in a single encounter. He is famous for his strong opposition to the kamikaze attacks, rare in IJN at the...
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    (1902–1926) Harusame Murasame Hayatori Asagiri Ariake Fubuki Arare Kamikaze class (1905–1930) Kamikaze Hatsushimo Yayoi Kisaragi Asakaze Shiratsuyu Shirayuki Matsukaze...
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  • destroyer built 1920-1922 6 Wakatake-class destroyer built 1922-1923 9 Kamikaze-class destroyer built 1922-1924 12 Mutsuki-class destroyer built 1925-1927...
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    Matome Ugaki (category Kamikaze pilots)
    extensive and revealing war diary, role at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and kamikaze suicide hours after the announced surrender of Japan at the end of the...
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  • was also sunk by a submarine torpedo. Land-base aircraft sinkings includes those caused by kamikazes. HMS Stratagem, Porpoise, and Stonehenge. Excludes...
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    picture For Those We Love, a drama about WW2 Kamikaze pilots. The Nieuport 17 was one of the main aircraft in the 2006 film Flyboys. An authentic Nieuport...
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    Sōryū (蒼龍, Sōryū, meaning "Blue (or Green) Dragon") was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the mid-1930s. A sister ship...
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