The Divine Wind
Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II
1st Edition
Published on 12. November 2013
264 pages
978-1-61251-274-7 (ISBN)
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The authors were with the Japanese Naval Special Attack Force (Kamikaze Corps) from its inception in late 1944.
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Rikihei Inoguchi | Roger Pineau | Tadashi Nakajima
The Divine Wind
Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II
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12/2013
Naval Institute Press
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Capt. Roger Pineau, a naval historian and author, was director of the Naval Memorial Museum in Washington, an editor at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology, and managing editor of the Smithsonian Institution Press in the mid-1960's and early 1970's.
Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword by Vice Admiral C.R. Brown USN
- Publisher's Note
- Preface by Roger Pineau
- Preface by Rikihei Inoguchi and Tadashi Nakajima
- PART ONE: BIRTH OF THE KAMIKAZE
- 1. Mabalacat
- The 201st AIr Group
- Kamikaze Special Attack Corps
- 2. Mishap Over Manila
- 3. "On Behalf of Your Hundred Million Countrymen
- Admiral Teraoka's Diary
- 4. Marianas Aftermath
- 5. RIse of the Kamikaze Spirit
- 6. CEBU
- Yamato Unit Arrives
- Volunteer for Death
- PART TWO: KAMIKAZE OPERATIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES
- 7. The Sho Operation and Early Sorties
- 8. First Successes
- Lieutenant at Seki
- The Yamato Unit Follows Suit
- Kamikazi Formations and Procedure
- Word from the Emperor
- 9. Extension of the Kamikaze Organization
- Admiral Ohnishi's Reasoning
- An Unorthodox Command
- Only a Matter of Time
- 10. Life at a Kamikaze Base
- Lieutenant Fukabori of the 701st Air Group
- PIlot's Party
- Men and Morale
- 11. FInal Operations in the Philippines
- Formation of the Second Kamikaze Corps
- Indoctrination and Tactics
- Morale in the New Corps
- Withdrawal to Formosa
- 12. Philippine Exodus
- The Last Sortie from Mabalcat
- Foot Soldier for a Day
- Removing the Records to Formosa
- PART THRE: SPECIAL ATTACK UNITS IN FORMOSA
- 13. The Divine Wind in Formosa
- First Air Fleet Reorganization
- Formation of the Nitaka Unit
- The Nitaka Unit Sorties
- A Mother's Request
- 14. The Tan Operation
- Kamikazes at Iwo Jima
- The Azusa Unit Attacks Ulithi
- PART FOUR: THE ISLANDS OF JAPAN
- 15. The War Nears Japan
- Last-Ditch Preparations
- OHKA ("Baka") Bombs
- The Opening Sorties
- Okinawa Land Fighting
- 16. Homeland Special Attack Units
- Kikusui Operations at Okinawa
- Lieutenant Dohi's Successful Ohika Attack
- Kamikazes Versus Grummans
- Episodes at Kanoya
- Not Always Gods
- 17. The End of the Imperial Navy
- A Surface Suicide Operation
- Admiral Ugaki's Kamikaze Sortie
- 18. Last Days of Admiral Ohnishi
- Japan
- Hara-Kiri
- PART FIVE: THE DIVINE WIND
- 19. Admiral Ohnishi's Credo
- The Man and the Hour
- Ohnishi's Viewpoint on Kamikaze Attacks
- 20. The Kamikaze Controversy
- Japanese Attitudes
- Foreign Viewpoints
- 21. Last Letters Home
- APPENDICES
- Appendix A: Kamikaze Attack Operations in the Philippine Islands Area
- Appendix B: Kamikaze Attack Operations in the Formosa Area
- Appendix C: Kamikaze Attack Operations in the Okinawa Area
- Index
