@christophercarpkey9382
I watched a show where they basically said Japan would have been better off just using these men as regular pilots and not sacrificing their planes. Because by the end of the war the had few pilots and even less planes and the Americans could basically bomb at will.
@G-Wagon
Pilot returned 9 times from Kamikaze didn't executed but He lived until 2016. His name is Tomoji Sasaki.
@sharp_ant4651
Let's be real, we'd all be that guy who came back 9 times
@judowrestlerka
That WASNT alcohol given to them. That was Rice Wine and high concentrations of METHAMPHETAMINE.
@johndavis8626
I was listening with my father and some other older man who was in the Navy and during a kamikaze attack a Japanese pilot started a suicide run instead of crashing into the ship landed in the ocean between two naval shipJumped out of a plane and surrendered
@Metalman200xdamnit
People have to remember,at this stage in the war,Japan was running out of everything. They adopted the Kamikaze attack to simulate a storm that saved them in the past. Japan was also far different then than they are today. The Japanese were taught to never give up,to fight until they could not fight anymore. That is why the atomic bombs were used.
@invictusbp1prop143
One pilot vokunteered to be a kamikaze, but was denied because he had a wife and two children. When she heard the news, the wife was ashamed and begged her husband for forgiveness...to make it right. She drowned their children the next day. She then took her own life. The husband was then allowed to join the squadron and fullfilled his mission.
@tukes1234
Another way to stop them from coming back was the landing gear would fall off the plane when it took off.
@randoamerican
"Alcohol was provided before flight" kamikazes into a japanese boat
@lionelsquires7662
No they weren't trained to "self sacrifice" They were ordered to do so. How many pilots do you think would survive the 'training???"
@billwilson-es5yn
Imperial Japan was short on aviation gasoline so their kamikaze pilots learned how to fly in small aircraft before receiving a few hours of training in a large radial engine aircraft that ran on a 50/50 mix of av gas and turpentine. They were sent on the suicide missions in older aircraft that held just enough of that mix to reach their final destination and had their canopy fastened shut from the outside so they couldn't open it if they tried ditching at sea to avoid death. Their poor quality fuel made their aircraft fly slow which threw off the Allied naval AA gunners. I remember seeing a few kamikaze pilots being interviewed for a WW2 documentary. One avoided being sent out on missions when he crashlanded during training and broke both legs. The other pilot said he was skimming the waves since his engines was missing badly and was taking repeated hits from the AA fire when one shot made his canopy fly off. He took advantage of that by ditching his aircraft to avoid being shot up or blown up. He bobbed around in the water until a boat from a destroyer came by to pick him up. Said he knew some English so thanked his rescuers for fishing him out then the crew of the destroyer for shooting him down.
@JoseSilva-bg3uz
Came back 9 times from his kamikaze mission !!!! That dude clearly didn't understood the assignment 😅😅
@kenshores9900
They added drugs to the alcohol as well.
@GlamorousTitanic21
Many WW2 vets will tell you that the fanaticism of the Japanese made the SS look quite level-headed by comparison.
@pasqualguigano6315
The pilot who completed nine kamikaze missions was nicknamed ….chicken chow mein
@savagebanana3711
1) Nope 2) Not today 3) Can't do this 4) Not this time 5) Maybe some other day 6) Nah boi 7) I forgot to delete my browser history 8) I wasn't carrying explosives that time 9) Had to return for refueling 💀
@ABerCul
They were only trained to take off and to crash in fake planes on the ground. Usually the kanalaze flight was their first and last flight. All of them were less than 19 years old
@rogersimmons8788
Drunk or drugged flying. That's a dangerous combination!
@alphonseknight8539
I read somewhere they were given Methamphetamine so they were so drugged out that they were agro enough, ballsy enough to do what they did
@felicitybywater8012