Word: masabumi
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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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...
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