Word: arima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Started. According to Radio Tokyo, the Kamikaze corps began its "death-defying, body-crashing" tactics last Oct. 15, when Vice Admiral Masabumi Arima flew his plane into a U.S. aircraft carrier, lest "the traditional spirit of the Japanese Navy be spoiled." Thereafter, Radio Tokyo daily intoned the names of "hero gods," who were promoted (posthumously) two or three ranks instead of the customary one. Japanese journalists interviewed little boys whose ambition was to grow up and become suicide pilots...
Tokyo Radio boasted last week that three more Jap admirals had been killed in action. Proud total since Sept. 1: 22. By Tokyo's account, one of last week's casualties, Vice Admiral Nashaharu Arima, crashed his torpedo bomber into a U.S. aircraft carrier. The U.S. Navy acknowledged no such damage...