Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported "desperate, suicidal" Japanese air attacks on U.S. ships near Okinawa by a "special attack corps." Thus the Pacific fleet boss lifted secrecy from an enemy tactic that had been a tabooed topic (and a source of endless scuttlebutt) since the Leyte campaign...
New Blood. Then came Lieut. Colonel John G. Cassidy's battalion. In four days of bitter fighting Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Corps troops won and lost the ridgetop three times. The Japanese met them coming up, popping out of caves and old tombs to hurl...
The Admiral's communique told the U.S. public what the U.S. press had dutifully refrained from telling: that the Japanese have organized a suicide corps of flyers whose mission is to crash-dive their explosives-laden aircraft into ships; that this Kamikaze (Divine Tempest) Corps has damaged some major...
What the Navy has learned about the Kamikaze Corps' make-up and organization is largely negative, but it is enough to spoil some splendid tales:
Examinations for appointments as Cadet Midshipmen in the United States Merchant Marine Cadet Corps and its academy at Kings Point, Long Island, will be held on the last Saturdays of May, September, and November, and on the last Wednesday of July, the War Shipping Administration has announced.