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US Navy ships vs kamikazes : Pacific Theater 1944-45 / Mark Stille.
- Title
- US Navy ships vs kamikazes : Pacific Theater 1944-45 / Mark Stille.
- Author
- Stille, Mark,
- Publication
- Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Osprey Publishing, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- 80 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- " The ineffectiveness of conventional air attacks on U.S. Navy surface ships, particularly heavily defended targets such as carrier task groups, forced the Japanese to reevaluate their tactics in late 1944. The solution they arrived at was simple: crash their aircraft into American ships. This notion of self-sacrifice fit well within the Japanese warrior psyche and proved terrifying to the American sailors subjected to it. These tactics brought immediate results, and proved effective until the end of the war. This book examines this terrifying new way of waging war, revealing how the U.S. Navy was forced to adapt its tactics and operations and deploy new weapons to counter the threat--analyzing the actual military benefits of the kamikaze mission and assessing whether the damage to American naval strength by the loss of so many pilots and aircraft actually had a material impact." --Publisher description.
- Alternative Title
- US Navy ships vs kamikazes, 1944-45
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Japan
- Japan. Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kōgekita
- Japan. Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kōgekitai
- Kamikaze pilots > Japan
- Kamikaze pilots
- Military campaigns
- Military operations, Aerial > Japanese
- Military operations, Naval > American
- Pacific Area
- United States
- Warships > United States > History > 20th century
- Warships
- World War (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, Japanese
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Area
- World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, American
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-79) and index.
- ISBN
- 1472812735
- 9781472812735
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library