complete manual of suicide english translation

When the Japanese stock of airplanes began to run low, new models of low quality were built for these missions.

It comes from the name the Japanese gave to a typhoon that destroyed the Mongol ships in the 13th century and saved the country from invasion.

Those pilots attacked the ships of the Allied Powers in the final years of World War II, during which they flew their planes into enemy ships.

Their correct name was tokubetsu kgeki tai (), which literally means special attack team.

The suicide attacks made by Navy pilots were called shinp tokubetsu kgeki tai (, divine wind special attack team ).

The American translators used a different style of pronunciation of the Japanese language by mistake, and read the word shinp ( divine wind ) as kamikaze, as those Japanese characters can be read both ways.

The name became well known so, after the war, the Japanese also started using it.

They lost many ships (including nearly all the Japanese aircraft carriers ), hundreds of fighter aircraft, and many of their best pilots.

The Japanese industry was small and very poor compared to the American industry.

For this reason, the United States replaced their lost ships and planes with better ones very quickly; but Japan could only make few, and of poor quality.

At the Battle of the Philippine Sea, on June 19-20, 1944, the Japanese forces were pushed back to the Philippines.

The capture of Saipan made it possible for the United States Army Air Force to attack Japan itself, using B-29 Superfortress bombers.

After the fall of Saipan, the Japanese commanders knew that the Allies would try to capture the Philippines next.

The Philippines were very important because they were located between the oil fields of Southeast Asia and Japan.

If Japan lost control over the Philippines, they would have little fuel left for their ships.

On October 17, the Allies started the attack on the Philippines in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

He understood that it was impossible to win the battle with so few aircraft and trained pilots.

For this reason, he decided to form a suicide attack force, the Special Attack Unit.

The Special Attack force was organized into 4 groups, Unit Shikishima, Unit Yamato, Unit Asahi, and Unit Yamazakura.

These names were taken from a patriotic poem ( waka or tanka ), written by the Japanese classical poet, Motoori Norinaga: ( ).

The poem reads: Shikishima no Yamato-gokoro wo hito towaba, asahi ni niou yamazakura bana.

The first kamikaze attack took place on October 21, 1944, against the flagship of the Royal Australian Navy, HMAS Australia.

Captain Emile Dechaineux, and many more were wounded.

Most of them were badly damaged or sunk, like the United States aircraft carrier USS St.

Lo. 4 This early success convinced the Japanese commanders to continue the kamikaze attacks.

Over the next few months, more than 2,000 planes made such attacks.

Complete Manual Of Suicide English Translation