https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXo2vqMwpFA
Imagine stepping into the cockpit of your fighter plane knowing it was going to be for the last time. Japanese Kamikaze fighters were trained to give their l

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/looking-back-at-japans-kamikaze-pilots-history-strategy-and-downfall
Mitsubishi A6M2 'Zero': the kamikaze pilot's choice of aircraft. The kamikaze pilots used the Mitsubishi A6M2 as their choice of aircraft. Nicknamed 'Zero', the A6M2 weighed 3,704 pounds when empty, making it one of the lightest fighter aircraft during the Second World War. Every weight-saving measure was incorporated in designing the

https://www.grunge.com/350622/the-untold-truth-of-japans-kamikaze-pilots/
The ideology of the Kamikaze pilots felt pure — a genuine love of country and a willingness to die in defense of it. The Guardian talked to Hisao Horiyama, who made a pretty similar statement. At one point, Emperor Hirohito personally visited his unit. From then on, he felt like he had no choice but to die for him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/world/asia/japan-kamikaze.html
阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版. TOKYO — For more than six decades, Kazuo Odachi had a secret: At the age of 17, he became a kamikaze pilot, one of thousands of young Japanese men

https://www.historyonthenet.com/kamikaze-pilots-what-was-the-real-story
The word "Kamikaze" is Japanese for "divine wind.". The term originally referred to a typhoon that destroyed a Mongolian fleet that was invading Japan in 1281. Kamikaze pilots adopted the name during World War II in an attempt to invoke the same divine protection. Kamikaze pilots were not, as is commonly believed, drafted into service.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39351262
"As kamikaze pilots, we were all prepared to die, so when I heard that we were defeated, I felt like the bottom had fallen out of my world." It was the necessity to work, get food and survive in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamikaze
Kamikaze (神風, pronounced [kamiꜜkaze]; ' divine wind ' or ' spirit wind '), officially Shinpū Tokubetsu Kōgekitai (神風特別攻撃隊, ' Divine Wind Special Attack Unit '), were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/japans-kamikaze-pilots-wwii
The USS Bunker Hill in flames after being hit by Kamikazes on May 11, 1945. Photo by the US Naval History and Heritage Command Haruo was one of more than 2,000 Japanese servicemen who perished in kamikaze attacks during the three month long battle for the island of Okinawa, located just 400 miles south of mainland Japan, that raged from April 1 to June 22, 1945. They were at the centre of a

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26256048
26 February 2014. Getty Images. Japan hopes to immortalise its kamikaze pilots - a squad of young men who crashed their aircraft into Allied ships in World War Two - by seeking Unesco World

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42223219
Japanese kamikaze pilots are infamous for the suicide missions they carried out during World War Two. Keiichi Kuwahara, 91, recalls how he managed to survive and why he thinks the missions were

https://www.historynet.com/a-kamikaze-pilots-complicated-legacy/
The analogy between kamikaze and suicide bomber is not merely the gaucherie of Kentaro's friends. In 2009, a reporter for ABC News opined that "Japan's infamous kamikaze…seem more related to the pilots of al-Qaeda than most Japanese today would like to admit.

https://www.history.com/news/pearl-harbor-japan-kamikaze-world-war-ii
Burlingame says that Iida, although he aimed for an American target with his plane, was not a kamikaze pilot. "If he had had a shot of making it back to the carrier, he would have done so

https://allthatsinteresting.com/kamikaze-pilots
Footage of one of the many kamikaze attacks carried out during World War II. On the morning of October 25, 1944, a squadron of five Japanese kamikaze pilots in Zero planes led by Yukio Seki soared over the Leyte Gulf in the Philippines. The Americans were totally unprepared for what was about to happen.

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/japans-real-kamikaze-pilots-survivors-debunk-stereotype-in-stories-of-sacrifice-1.100796
They were the kamikaze, "the divine wind" ordered to fly their planes into certain death. The US strategic bombing survey and data kept at the library at Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo estimate that about 2,500 of them died during the war. Some history books give higher numbers. About one in every five kamikaze planes managed to hit an enemy target.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy_e85RnVh4
Kamikaze, officially Shinpū Tokubetsu Kōgekitai, were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empir

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2019/02/13/farewell-letters-of-the-kamikaze-it-was-love-not-fanaticism-that-drove-many-of-japans-suicide-pilots/
Yet, the kamikaze are a far cry from 21 st century terrorists. While today's extremists make no distinction between combatants and civilians, the kamikaze only attacked military targets. To save the homeland and their loved ones, pilots particularly sought out enemy aircraft carriers, for every American flattop sent to the bottom would mean

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/wwii/wwii-japan/kamikaze/pilots-kamikaze.html
The name, Kamikaze, means Heavenly, or Divine, Wind. The name was resurrected from Japanese history stemming from the 16th Century tale of a Mongol emperor whose fleet was sunk or turned by "the gods" who sent a heavenly wind. In addition to the suicide tactic, the planes were sometimes loaded with bombs and extra gasoline tanks before flown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdUpZpltlwg
The Japanese word kamikaze translates to "divine wind." It refers to the storms that saved Japan from the invading Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan, and thus

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1995/october/success-meant-death-interview-kaoru-hasegawa
A Japanese World War II naval aviator—the rare survivor of a kamikaze mission because he was shot down and rescued by the crew of a U.S. destroyer 50 years ago—spoke with Naval History Editor Fred L. Schultz at the U.S. Naval Institute headquarters.. Mr. Hasegawa is the current President of the 80-year-old Rengo Company, Ltd., an international corrugated packing producer with more than

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/japan-kamikaze-pilots-museums-intl-hnk/index.html
The youngest kamikaze pilot was Yasuo Tanaka, just 16. He flew an Okha - essentially a bomb with wings but no wheels dropped from a mother aircraft. ... stories like Itsui's bring tears to

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/18k4ywn/how_were_surviving_kamikaze_pilots_treated_by/
Kamikaze pilots returning to Japan faced an even more complicated situation. As you observed in "Godzilla Minus One," Shikishima (the protagonist who was a pilot) was at one point confronted by a rather hostile neighbor for still being alive. This reaction was not uncommon at all, and the (recently translated!) memoirs of Kazuo Odachi, a former

https://www.schooltube.com/kamikaze-pilots-a-history-of-sacrifice-in-world-war-ii/
They decided to use specially trained pilots to attack Allied ships, sacrificing themselves in the process. These pilots were known as "kamikaze pilots." The Kamikaze Pilots. The majority of kamikaze pilots were young men, often in their late teens or early twenties. They were chosen for their skill and patriotism.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/18u6tz/during_ww2_what_were_was_the/
I have always been fascinated with the idea that the Japanese were able to dedicate a portion of their air force to suicide bombers, with willing pilots who blew themselves up to destroy American ships. I would love to be linked to some articles detailing what it was like to become a kamikaze pilot, and how it was even a viable method of war

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/what-it-s-like-to-fly-the-f-15ex-according-to-a-boeing-test-pilot/ar-BB1oqYUV
The Advanced F-15 now features digital fly-by-wire. This means pilots can maneuver the jet in an unrestricted manner in all regimes, without the fear of the aircraft departing from controlled flight.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a60898491/rogue-1-drone-marines/
Like the protagonists in the 2016 Star Wars film of the same name, Rogue 1 is designed to perform one-way—i.e. suicidal—attack missions. This kind of drone is popularly dubbed a kamikaze, or

https://collider.com/mission-impossible-to-top-gun-best-tom-cruise-stunts-ranked/
In the first Top Gun, Cruise learned how to pilot the planes, but didn't do the majority of the stunts. In Top Gun: Maverick , the action star took it upon himself to teach the rest of the cast

https://www.yahoo.com/news/shipping-container-launcher-packing-126-194409165.html
Highly maneuverable first-person view (FPV) kamikaze drones that require an operator to pilot them throughout their entire flight have become a particular scourge on both sides of the battlefield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV9kHrKQxNI
The life of a kamikaze pilot could be relatively short if a soldier is called into duty, sometimes their first flight is their last. Don't miss today's epic

https://www.polygon.com/what-to-watch/2024/6/15/24176154/best-sci-fi-movies-watch-netflix-june-2024
Set in 1945 in the waning weeks of World War II, the film follows the story of Kōichi Shikishima, a kamikaze pilot who abandons his duty, knowing that his sacrifice would do nothing to change the

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/just-visiting/2024/06/13/ai-co-pilot-learning-more-outsourcing
Treating AI as a co-pilot is tempting, but in learning, the bigger temptation is for students to use it as a subcontractor, and that's not good. I have a friend who works in an education-related capacity (not as a teacher) who had been putting off their investigations of generative AI (artificial intelligence) and large language models until the end of semester when they had the bandwidth to