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hitotsz 10-18-2011 08:25 PM

What was the effectiveness of Kamikaze?
 
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Japan was reduced to reliance upon a last ditch kamikaze defense of the home islands, which would cause so many US casualties that a favorable peace might still be obtained
I was wondering how "would cause so many US casualties" came out to be.

evanny 10-18-2011 08:49 PM

what is there not to understand?

if a car comes at you. yes, you can shoot it or even kill the driver, but it is still going straight and it will still hit you.
the same goes for pilots.

also, most of them where high on meth (methamphetamine) - so they really didn't have any second thoughts about what they where doing.

JohnBraden 10-18-2011 09:07 PM

Where do you find this crap?

Ryzorian 10-19-2011 12:03 AM

Most kamakazi died before they ever hit thier targets. The few who did get through did cause alot of casulties. I believe 30,000 or so total dureing the later part of the war.

It was discovered after Japan had surrendored that the main islands were full of stockpiled planes and bunkers with a civilian population brainwashed into suicide brigades. Conservitive estimates of the Invasion of Japan was roughly 1.1 million Americans and 4 to 6 million Japanese.

evanny 10-19-2011 06:09 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnBraden (Post 883831)
Where do you find this crap?

talking to me?

JohnBraden 10-19-2011 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by evanny (Post 883976)
talking to me?

no, the OP

Ryzorian 10-20-2011 12:55 AM

History channel..got to love it.

Military channel is good too.

Columbine 10-20-2011 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by hitotsz (Post 883828)

I was wondering how "would cause so many US casualties" came out to be.

Gee, I dunno. Someone did a kamikaze with a couple of passenger planes about nine years ago. That caused a hell of a lot of US casualties.

Yeah. THAT. With smaller planes, but more of them.

Ryzorian 10-21-2011 02:56 AM

Plus the smaller planes had piolets who knew how to fly and were loaded with 500 pound bombs


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