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US Navy ships vs kamikazes : Pacific Theater, 1944-45

Title: US Navy ships vs kamikazes : Pacific Theater, 1944-45 / Mark Stille ; illustrator: Jim Laurier.
Author: Stille, Mark
Publication: Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2016.

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Additional Authors

Laurier, Jim

Description

80 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour); 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.

Series Statement

Duel ; 76

Uniform Title

Duel (Oxford, England) ; 76.

Alternative Title

US Navy ships vs kamikazes, 1944-45

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-79) and index.

ISBN

9781472812735
1472812735
9781472812742 (canceled/invalid)
9781472812759 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

ocn918283356
918283356
SCSB-9199274

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library