Hi guys! I was wondering if anyone had an idea if Kamikazes were launched fromthe Philippines. If so, where? I just need a bit of confirmation. Was it in Leyte? Manila? And were there also Korean Kamikaze pilots aside from Japanese? Thank you very much. Gwendy
Plenty on Google. The Philippines was where it all started in 1944. This is a site on the Kamikazi (Shimpu) from both sides. http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kamikaze/american/index.htm The inspiration for Kamikaze was pilot Masabumi Arima who tried to dive his aircraft into the USS Franklin (and missed). Vice Admiral Takijiro Ohnishi formed the first kamikaze unit in 1944. This site discusses the errors in the History Channels DVD. http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kamikaze/films/documentaries/blunders/index.htm Japanese Suicide Attacks21 Oct44 Two planes with volunteers flew from the Philippines to attack US carriers. 23-26 Oct44. Off Leyte, 55 Kamikaze pilots, in the first planned mass ... www.ww2pacific.com/suicide.html - 12k - Cached - Similar pages Suicide Tactics: The Kamikaze During World War II - Air Group 4The Kamikaze pilot`s name was Isamu Kamitake, flying from the Philippines. Kamitake either did not have a bomb, or he failed to arm it. ... www.airgroup4.com/kamikaze.htm - 28k - Cached - Similar pages American Merchant Marine in World War 2In the Mindoro invasion of the Philippines, more merchant mariners lost ... of the merchant ships sunk in the Pacific were sunk by kamikaze suicide pilots. ... www.usmm.org/ww2.html - 45k - Cached - Similar pages USAF Museum - WWII Combat Pacific - Return to the PhilippinesAs a prelude to the long-anticipated campaign to retake the Philippines, ... Gulf that the enemy unleashed a new air weapon--the Kamikaze or suicide plane. ... www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/wwii/cp15.htm - 3k - Cached - Similar pages Indiana Soldiers & SailorsA Japanese Kamikaze pilot flew into Claude's ship and he was killed. ... of her husband's grave site located at Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines. ... fizkid.tripod.com/ - 47k - Cached - Similar pages The kamikaze and the communist: WWII survivors embody conflict ...Flying over the Leyte Gulf in the Philippines, he figured that in another 20 ... naval battle in history, and the first in which kamikaze were deployed. ... mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/features/archive/news/2005/07/20050713p2g00m0fe003000c.html - 25k - Cached - Similar pages LeyteThe struggle also reduced Japanese land-based air capability in the Philippines by more than 50 percent, forcing them to depend on suicidal kamikaze pilots. ... www.army.mil/cmh-pg/brochures/leyte/leyte.htm - 69k - Cached - Similar pages KamikazeThe kamikaze pilots carried manuals in their cockpits, ... the Philippines, just 400 miles away where the first kamikazi pilots dove to their deaths in 1944 ... www.rotten.com/library/death/kamikaze/ - 10k - Cached - Similar pages Great Blunders of WWII: The Failure of the KamikazeThe narrator explains that the inspiration of the first kamikaze corps was an air group commander in the Philippines, Masabumi Arima, who in October 1944 ... wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kamikaze/films/documentaries/blunders/index.htm - 11k - Cached - Similar pages
