Research Catalog

Title

Kamikaze : a Japanese pilot's own spectacular story of the infamous suicide squadrons / Yasuo Kuwahara and Gordon T. Allred.

Author

Kuwahara, Yasuo, 1929-1980

Publication

Clearfield, Utah : American Legacy Media, ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Allred, Gordon T.

Description

xvii, 255 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Kamikaze squadrons recruited teenage boys and converted them into human bombs. These boys became suicide pilots whose sole purpose was to die for the Emperor. During World War II, the Kamikaze caused the greatest losses in the history of the United States Navy.

Subject

• Kuwahara, Yasuo, 1929-1980
• Japan. Rikugun. Kōkūtai > Biography
• Japan. Rikugun. Kōkūtai
• World War (1939-1945)
• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, Japanese
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Area
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Japanese
• Kamikaze pilots > Biography
• Kamikaze pilots
• Military campaigns
• Military operations, Aerial > Japanese
• Pacific Area

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Personal narratives

Note

• "Newly revised and expanded"--Cover.

Contents

Part 1: National glider champion -- Predestined decision -- Winter and waning days -- Part 2: Instilling the spirit -- Taiko Binta--splendid game -- Grand way of heaven and earth -- Time to cry -- Cost of sushi cake -- Parting of Miyagame -- Brief reunion -- Part 3: Praying mantis -- Full reparation -- Fighter pilot -- Part 4: First human bombs -- High rendezvous -- Honor and a lost cause -- Death greets the New Year -- Wind among the lanterns -- Miracle of life -- Women of the shadows -- Toyoko -- Chimes in the night -- Ashes for the family shrine -- Divine storm -- Lonely place -- Part 6: Lighter than a feather -- Battle with the giants -- Hiroshima -- Voice of the emperor -- Farewell cup.

ISBN

• 9780976154754
• 0976154757

LCCN

^^2006025960

OCLC

• 70867064
• SCSB-13784908

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library