Author: Hoyt, Edwin P.,
Title: THE KAMIKAZES.
Description: Panther, London, 1985, 1st in imprint, paperback, 352pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., wraparound pictorial cover-art by Brian Knight, an account of the Japanese suicide pilots during WW2, the brainshild of Admiral Onishi, the campaign to send relatively untrained pilots on suicide missions to crash into US Aircraft Carriers in an attempt to cripple or sink them, and how patriotism, duty and fanaticism led hundreds of young men to sacrifice themselves for their country and their Emperor, lightly rubbed and creased at exterms., edges tanned, very good,

Keywords: war ww2 navy air force japan pacific


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