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In blossoms today, then scattered: Life is so like a delicate flower. How can one expect the fragrance To last forever? - Admiral Oinishi Takijiro

Transcend life and death. When you eliminate all thoughts about life and death, you will be able to totally disregard your earthly life. This will also enable you to concentrate your attention on eradicating the enemy with unwavering determination, meanwhile reinforcing your excellence in flight skills. - A paragraph from the Kamikaze pilot's manual, located in their cockpits.

Kamikaze Pilots of the second World War This project is on the //kamikaze// pilots who made suicide attacks in planes during the Pacific war. The work “kamikaze” means divine wind in Japanese. It was first used when Japan was being attacked by the Mongolians in 1281 and a typhoon took the attackers out every time. One site I looked at stated that the Japanese don’t call the pilots kamikaze and only use that when talking about the typhoons. In the following paragraphs I will talk about who the Kamikaze pilots were, what they did, how they did it, and when and where. The kamikaze tactic was commanded by Vice-Admiral Onishi Takijiro of the Japanese navy. Who were the Kamikaze pilots? Most of them were born in the late Taisho period or early Showa period which is when Japan started turning into a fascist state. The emperor Showa was thought of as a god, and systematic, organized school led to “brainwashing” because many students were taught to die for the emperor. By the time it was 1944 the motto //Jusshi Reisho// was taught which means “sacrifice life”. Many of the young men (youngest 17 and oldest 35 years of age) were fearless of death and volunteered because they thought it was right to die for the emperor because that is what they had been taught. They were usually second born because the oldest were to take over the family business, they were mostly from prestigious colleges because they tended to have more liberal ideas and knew more of the outside world. The motto of the Kamikaze was “one man-one ship”. What were kamikaze pilots? They were pilots that completed suicide missions by flying into the ships of enemies to blow them up. Once the military ran out of ordinary aircraft they began to use a plane built specifically as a kamikaze missile called the //Okha or cherry blossom.// It was a small rocket-powered aircraft with a large 1200kg warhead in the nose, that was carried by a bomber and dropped 20-30 miles from its target, where its Kamikaze pilot ignited the rockets and streaked to its target. In its final dive, the Okha reached a top speed of 576mph, which was much faster than any other aircraft, however most okha’s were shot down by American fighters before they were even dropped from the carrying bombers. They launched about 5000 kamikaze pilots, mostly during the battle of Okinawa they’re results were the sinking of 34 American ships and landing craft, and 288 damaged. The kamikaze suicide missions first started to take place in October of 1944; they were the last efforts to win the war which they had been steadily losing. They were new to the war – no one had really used suicide missions like this before. They also used small boats armed with explosives and manned missiles, during the battle of Okinawa (April 6th, 1945) waves of kamikaze pilots crashed into the allied fleets. They aimed for the spot between the bridge and the smoke stack or on an aircraft carrier the middle. When they spotted the enemy they dove in order to try and surprise the enemy. They pulled the pin out of the bomb, thought about their childhood and flew into the ship. In case of bad weather their manuals said that they could return to the base where they would drop off the bomb in the designated are and return to the wing. The most interesting thing I learned while researching this topic was that the kamikaze pilots were practically brainwashed since they were young to die for their country and emperor. The government didn’t do this specifically so they could have kamikaze pilots because they didn’t know they were going to do suicide missions yet. The government instilled in the minds of the young Japanese boys that to die for your country was honourable and that dying for the emperor was proper because he was like a god. The most important thing that I learned personally is that society has a major impact on you. The kamikaze pilots were taught what was honourable by society, which was controlled by the government. They lived in a much oppressed society in which everything was censored, so that even the diaries and wills said nothing of their feelings and asked sibling to join the military as well. Throughout all my research I saw time and again they were taught that it was country before life, and society formed them into men that thought only of what was said to be honourable. videos: [] [] []