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12 unusual facts about Kamikaze


Anti-surface warfare

Historically, this was conducting primarily through level- or dive-bombing and strafing runs (and in some cases by suicide (Kamikaze) attack).

Christian Vidal

In 2001 he formed the heavy metal band Cuero together with former Kamikaze vocalist Enrique Gomez Yafal.

Dale Starkey

Later, 'was bombed during the invasion of Okinawa by a Suicide plane.

Giorgio Ghezzi

Giorgio Ghezzi (11 July 1930 – 12 December 1990), nicknamed "Kamikaze", was an Italian football player.

Junichi Okada

The film follows the journey of a kamikaze pilot named Kyuzo Miyabe, a man described as a coward yet volunteered to die for his country.

Kamikaze

The carrier battles in 1942, particularly Midway, had inflicted irreparable damage on the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJNAS), such that they could no longer put together a large number of fleet carriers with well-trained aircrews.

The Japanese military also used or made plans for non-aerial Japanese Special Attack Units, including those involving submarines, human torpedoes, speedboats and divers.

KAN Little Joe

The Little Joe, also known by the United States Navy designation KAN, was an early American ship-based, short-range surface-to-air missile, the development of which was initiated in 1945 as a response to the Kamikaze tactics used by the Japanese.

The development of the Little Joe rocket began in 1945, as the United States Navy sought an effective point defense against Japanese Kamikaze aircraft.

Naval history of Japan

During the last phase of the war the Imperial Japanese Navy resorted to a series of desperate measures, including Kamikaze (suicide) actions.

New York State Route 17

Near downtown Binghamton, NY 17 goes around the side of Prospect Mountain at what is locally known as "Kamikaze Curve".

Timethai

Timethai was discovered in 2010 by Kamikaze's casting staff who came across Timethai's videos on a YouTube channel named 'Dharmthai'.


Abdullah Kobayashi

BJW World Tag Team Championship (4 times) - with Kamikaze (1), Daikokubo Benkei (1), Jaki Numazawa (1) and Daisuke Sekimoto (1)

DJ Cameo

In October 2005, Cameo started his own label, On A Level, and Kamikaze Recordings working with artists such as Jon E Cash, DaVinChe, Terror Danger, P-Jam, Dexplicit, Vital, Delinquent, TnT, J-Sweet, IMP, Jiggalo, Black Jack and Scandalous.

Just the Beginning

It was released in 1999 under the Kamikaze label and sold 50,000 copies in the United States and Philippines where it went gold.

Max Boyer

On October 9, 2010, IWS held its final show before ceasing its operations, during which Boyer made his return and wrestled his first match in two and a half years, defeating Vanessa Kraven, Alex Silva, Kid Kamikaze, Mike Bailey and then–champion, former partner Shayne Hawke in a six–way elimination match to regain the IWS Canadian Championship.

Mizuno

Mizuno Shinryu, proposed rocket-powered kamikaze aircraft designed during WWII

Operation Tan No. 2

She then took part in the Battle of Okinawa, where Admiral Mitscher shifted his flag to her after Kamikaze attacks successively knocked both USS Bunker Hill and USS Enterprise out of the battle.

Rheinmetall Air Defence

Originally used as anti-aircraft weapons by the US Navy, they were frequently the last line of defence against kamikaze attacks.

Sagay, Negros Occidental

Known later as the Third Regiment Suicide Corps, it was headed by Major Tsuneharu Sirai with Capt. Tetsuzu Kimura as his Chief Staff Officer, of its 59 pilots and crews, 30 were killed in the Battle of Leyte Gulf which they played a major role as kamikaze pilots.

Sonderkommando Elbe

This is quite unlike the Japanese kamikaze attacks against Allied ships in the Pacific Theatre, in which Japanese forces loaded their pilots' aircraft with explosives, most often within the structure of the aircraft, and therefore had no chance of survival, as the explosives detonated with the crash of the aircraft itself - purpose-designed into the nose of the dedicated Ohka rocket-powered suicide aircraft.

Wings of Defeat

The film features commentary by John W. Dower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, American historian of modern Japan, and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, author of the books Kamikaze Diaries and Cherry Blossoms, Kamikaze and Nationalism.