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...Japs would throw into the continuing battle off Okinawa, and into any other operations in the islands, every available aircraft. To the strength of the Kamikaze Corps was already added that of the Jinrai (piloted buzz-bombs) and the Giretsu (airborne saboteurs). Ozawa would go further: he would take surface ships, rig them for self-destruction, then -if the Kamikaze squadrons could blast a way through the "picket line" (outer naval screen)-he would send the ships in to try "body-crashing" tactics against major U.S. fleet units...
...Near Future. The crumpled Giretsu attack was part of a major Japanese air offensive on Okinawa. Eleven light naval units were damaged and a total of seven U.S. planes lost, but the foray cost the slipping Japanese air force 166 planes...
...Giretsu (unsurpassed loyalists) special attack airborne units, commanded by Captain Michio Okuyama, daringly landed amid the enemy in Kita and Naka airfields on the main Okinawa Island. . . . Upon landing they promptly blasted grounded enemy aircraft, munitions depots and airfield installations in rapid succession and are achieving great war results by throwing the enemy into confusion-Japanese Communiqu...
...Okinawa burst into their barking din. A brisk enemy air raid was on. Suddenly, to the amazement of Marine pilots and mechanics, a Japanese twin-engined bomber, its wheels still retracted, glided in and scraped down the runway to a fairish belly landing. This was the debut of the Giretsu branch of Japan's fantastic suicide warriors...
Checking up later, U.S. officers found four more Japanese troop carriers crashed near the airstrip with some 70 occupants dead, and estimated that the original Giretsu attack had included up to twelve plane loads. Apparently the "unsurpassed loyalists" hoped to wreck the airfield, then filter into U.S. lines for sabotage...
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