Word: onishi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...controversy, took potshots at their own side with charges that recently drafted civilians had been sent out as Kamikaze flyers to save the professionals. Authors Inoguchi and Nakajima know better. They were staff officers in the Imperial Navy's First Air Fleet under Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi, who organized the first avowedly suicidal attacks. From the pilots' last letters home, the authors draw their most revealing and convincing testimony to the Kamikaze flyers' eagerness...
...bulk of The Divine Wind goes far toward fulfilling the Japanese authors' hope of disclosing what was going on in the minds of the Kamikaze men-among them Admiral Onishi. With Japan's decision to surrender, marking the failure of his divine wind, he committed harakiri. At its organization, Onishi had presented the Kamikaze staff with a launching poem...