WAR AND SOLDIERS
KAMIKAZELENTÄJÄT
When the Americans were fighting in the Philippines in autumn 1944
against them was attacked by a new and frightening ways.
The Japanese pilots collided computers ships
and tried to take them with him.
It shocked the Americans badly.
We thought we had already won the war.
Kamikazehyökkäykset säikyttivät us almost järjiltämme.
I watched the approaching aircraft.
It came like a slow motion.
I almost saw bullets hitting the deck.
Upper body was a flight deck to date.
The pilot did not correct aircraft. I shouted: "Straighten, goddamn it!"
During the 8 months were damaged or sunk more than 500 ships.
5000 Marine soldiers were killed and almost as many were wounded.
The attacks accelerated as and when Japan was approaching.
It was a foretaste of what the Japanese islands could be in front.
Kamikazelentäjät were very young.
Their tactic language of despair
but its roots were deep in the Japanese warrior tradition.
Samurai warriors were born in medieval Japan.
They followed the Bushido , or "way of the warrior" ways.
They require a samurai to absolute obedience.
He had to be ready to die for his lord or the Emperor.
In this way, the dead samurai would arise again.
Bushido cult strengthened again after the 1st World War.
It was a reaction to the democratization of corruption fueled.
The disappointed youth and especially officers
calling for a return to traditional values.
Strong population growth eroded at the same time the Japanese economy.
March, which is totally dependent on imports. Unemployment and poverty increased.
Begun in 1929, the recession exacerbated the situation.
Armed Forces of the matter was conquests.
Japan captured the 30 beginning of the century living space in Manchuria.
Then, in July 1937 Japan invaded China.
It began eight long years of war.
The Japanese army introduced the Bushido worst aspects
the enemy of contempt and complete ruthlessness.
On the Chinese civilians atrocities shocked the whole world.
The army ignored the protests of informed but to serve Caesar
which it still held infallible god.
The army scrape under the guise of the same excuse for more power.
Gen. Hideki Tojosta became defense minister in 1940.
Military power was now virtually unlimited.
He drove a sharp line in relations with the West
who opposed the Chinese invasion.
US President Roosevelt responded by declaring Japan's trade embargo.
Japan was either bend over or buy a raw materials
such as oil and rubber, which are received in Southeast Asia.
Thus was born the idea of ​​the Japanese-dominated Greater Asia
which included East Indian, Malay, Thailand, Burma and the Philippines.
USA's strong Pacific fleet
was the main obstacle to these plans.
So we started planning its destruction.
Admiral Yamamoto, the Pearl Harbor attack planner
knew that the US would recover industrialized attack in half a year.
He believed in it enough to expand the empire.
Since then, could only hope
that the United States consider the war against Japan would be too expensive.
Yamamoto was right
that six months would be sufficient predatory regions.
Pearl Harbor that is, 7. 12. 1941 and May 1942, during the period
Japan achieved all of its objectives.
The Japanese army proved to be the West's troops like.
But Bushido Law prompted them to take the suicide attacks.
The soldiers were taught that the surrender was a great shame.
Therefore, they treated the prisoners very cruelly
and in complete violation of the Geneva Convention.
It was not worried about them in the spring of 1942. Japan was overjoyed.
Its unbeatable army of young men crowding
who wanted to share the honor.
The fortunes of war was rejected by the Japanese quickly.
They attacked in June 1942 Midwayhin
1800 km north-west of Pearl Harbor.
But the Americans knew to expect an attack.
Pacific Fleet support ships were ready.
All four sent to attack carriers were destroyed.
Navy greats disappeared into thin air.
US counter-attack started two months later.
The troops made the invasion of Guadalcanal.
The Japanese did not give up the island without resistance
and Guadalcanal were fighting for half a year.
USA progressed towards the north
but encountered each island increasingly stronger resistance.
The situation was the same middle part of the Pacific.
They were cruel sadists.
They wanted to die for the emperor, and we helped them.
The Japanese fought to the end. Only the wounded surrendered.
Itsemurharynnäköitä was seen with increasing frequency.
The Americans reached in July 1944 Mariana Islands.
The huge B 29 machines reached from there to bomb Japan.
Japanese desperation got the new forms.
It was not planned, but began quite spontaneously.
Two pilots announced during air combat
that they had no more ammunition, and they were going to walk into the B 29, respectively.
I saw them flying intentionally in the B 29 Return key.
B 29's falling to the ground
and pilots were to die in defense of their fatherland.
Many others soon followed suit.
The Japanese had a thirst for the death of these soldiers a new weapon.
The US was preparing to October 1944 release of the Philippines.
It faced attacked over the sea the center of the Admiral Nimitz
and proceeded south-western islands of General MacArthur.
The Japanese made preparations to defend the islands
that protected Japan.
Defence Line Kurilleilta stretched from the Dutch East Indies.
The plan was called Operation Sho, "victory".
According to countries increases had to fight as soon as sea and air forces.
Japan's powerful navy was placed in the Dutch East India
which was a short trip to the Philippines.
Admiral Onishin Air Force was to support the operation
as soon as the US attack at the beginning.
The fleet had to attack Americans
two battleships department and the last tukialustensa fun.
Japanese air forces had suffered heavy losses throughout the year 1944.
Onishilla had only 60 machines.
It was not enough at all against the US fleet.
Machinery destructive power was maximized
so he devised a plan that reflected the Bushido in its purest form.
The idea gave another naval aviator, Admiral Masabumi Arima.
When the US Navy approached the Philippines
Arima led Air Command itsemurharynnäkköön against it.
He flew the aircraft carrier USS Franklin and damaged it badly.
Onishin thought this was the best way to destroy puukantiset support vessels.
Required for the boarding in air support came just aircraft carriers.
But the attacks had to be systematic.
Onishi asked the volunteers to a special assault unit.
The unit was called the Kamikaze, "wind gods"
According to Chapter 1200 mongolihyökkääjät destroyed the typhoon.
Onishin officers looked at how men would react.
I called on volunteers to write their names on a piece of paper.
I wondered what I would do, if no one signed up.
That evening, one of the officer brought me a stack of notes.
All but three men had made themselves known.
The pilots felt it was an honor to give the enemy a severe blow to
and to die for the emperor.
Fire Dew soon followed.
US made 20. 10. 1944 landings Leyte Island in the Philippines.
Troops were quickly beachhead.
The Japanese launched an immediate operation Shon.
But the US Navy submarines found ...
... And triggered the torpedoes.
Thus began the harsh attack against Japanese ships.
Two carriers were immersed before they reached their destination.
Onishi launched the first kamikazehyökkäykset.
The machines did not have radar, and the enemy found in bad weather.
Onishi tried again on 25 October.
Air increased five-directed kamikazelentäjien Zero and four escort.
They found the disembarkation supported aircraft carriers
and kamikazekoneet attacked.
Five to four aircraft broke through the intense anti-aircraft defense and it worked.
Support The ship sank in the St. Ló, and three other badly damaged.
Onishi elated ordered a new offensive.
It damaged two support vessels, but the Japanese fleet was already retreating.
Three battle ships and support ships for the past was embedded.
Kamikaze seemed to be the only way to protect the Japanese homeland.
Kamikazeyksiköitä was founded more
but very few experienced martial pilots could not afford to sacrifice.
Men were sought directly from pilot training.
Kamikazelentäjänhän just had to get to their target.
For him there was no need to teach air combat skills.
The situation darkened all the time
and Bushido began to instill in training more and more closely.
And the results came.
All the school's 150 fighter pilots was convened.
Head of School said,
that they are looking for men of special mission.
Entire education groups came forward.
They were taught the basics of attacking.
Most of the volunteers knew what they wanted.
No living creature does not want to die.
But sometimes there is a moment
when you can not shirk its responsibility
and then to sacrifice their lives.
Spirit sacrifice of the motherland and the people on behalf of the
was the highest possible honor.
I was not alone in that view.
All thought as well.
The suicide attacks did not come to the Philippines only from the air.
The Japanese drew himself grenades and mines
and attacked the tanks against knowing die.
Kamikazeaate spread.
The US got control of the main islands of the Philippines at the beginning of 1945.
Next it was the turn of Iwo Jima
where part of the Japanese kamikazekoneista was placed.
The island wanted to, not least because
that operate in the Mariana B 29's needed a saattohävittäjiä.
US Marines went ashore at Iwo Jimassa 19.2. 1945.
The enemy was strong underground defensive positions.
Marines were forced fierce battle.
Kamikaze attacked supporting the landing ships.
They sank Bismarck Sean and damaged a large Saratoga.
Air combat ships had been fixed after the autumn.
More and more kamikazekone fell before it hit the target.
Japanese tactics had the benefit of the American people.
Pilots are focused on the same goal, but each his own.
Thus the ship's guns had only one goal.
They did not have to fend off multiple attackers simultaneously.
No kamikazelentäjä not surviving to correct this mistake.
Iwo Jimasta fought a month.
Flamethrower was often the only weapon that was able to empty the bunkers.
The Americans lost the Iwo Jimassa nearly 30,000 men.
Of these, about 7,000 were felled.
20000 defender less than 1,000 survived and were captured.
But Iwo Jimakin paled alongside the next target.
It was in Okinawa, the last stronghold of the island ahead of Japan.
Okinawa was the last milestone on the way to Japan.
It had been decided to defend to the last man.
32. 110,000 man army are clustered to the beach
but were going to tax the attackers disguised their positions.
The Japanese have also had a new kamikazeaseita
such as Okha or "cherry blossom", which was controlled bomb.
It was a rocket motor and a 1200-kilo warhead.
Okha bomb attached to the machine
and detached near the ball.
Okhan director could not turn back.
We thought all the time of death.
Sitting in Okha meant certain death.
We waited just our turn
and the wait seemed to last forever.
It seemed like he had been sentenced to death
and waited only contact with the electric chair.
The Japanese was Italian, like boats
which was run in the vihollislaivaa.
But the Japanese boat was not supposed to jump off.
Okinawa ports had hidden dozens of such boats.
Kaiten, or "the heavens quake" was a sophisticated weapon.
It was built mini-submarine torpedoes.
There was room for the pilot and the tower, which the boat was directed target.
The pilot was able in theory to leave the boat before the collision.
It was very difficult.
It did not have any safety equipment.
It was like a barrel, which swirled around until the head went dizzy.
The submarine took up close to the ministry of goals
and it was removed under water.
The attacks against the invasion troops began in March 1945.
Kamikaze made their first successful offensive 19.3.
They hit the mother ship Waspiin and the second time in Franklin.
Either the ship was badly damaged, and 900 men were killed.
Okha bombs were tested for the first time two days later.
The attack failed miserably.
Rocket weight hindered bombers badly.
The American fighters were able to lose all of them.
The Americans landed on Okinawa on the west bank 1.4.
They are met with resistance and it went inland.
More than 350 kamikazekonetta attacked three days later
against the landing force ships.
Attack ended in bloodshed.
Only the carrier Belleau Wood was damaged slightly.
Japanese until the maximum kamikazehyökkäys started 4.4.
Battleship Yamato was fueled by just one way trip
because it had to drive to the beach of Okinawa artillery battery.
It never reached their destination. American planes sank it.
No bomb the boat could not get close to the American ships.
Many boat anchorage was in the hands of the attackers.
One of the Kaiten sunk tanker USS MISSISSINEWA
but most of them were destroyed emoveneidensä included.
Propaganda argued, however, that a number of battleships had been destroyed.
The people were led to believe that the devastating loss was turning into victory.
Kamikazehyökkäykset continued.
The American tactic was desperate.
We shot without full iron.
Machines always found the air defense gaps where they had been.
Many planes hit just beside us.
The attacks continued non-stop around the clock.
Kamikazeyksiköihin came despite the loss still more volunteers.
Lieutenant Nakajima was always our mission briefings.
He said: "If you do not find your goal, turn back"
"So you will repeat a new opportunity to die."
Kamikazehyökkäykseen output had developed their own rituals.
Men were told the night before departure.
It gave them time to prepare and write a farewell note.
Ensign Shigeyuki Suzuki wrote:
"It's a great day when we get to the fight, it is the joy of the day"
"But at the same time of her death."
Isao Matsuo said to his parents:
"Congratulate me. I get to die. This is the last day of my life."
"The fate of the Fatherland settled in the Southern Ocean"
"I perish with the fragile cherry blossoms by law."
Pilots find it on the last day of a white headband.
It was a symbol of the samurai revenge.
They drank jäähyväismaljan rice wine with your companions.
Then they went on their PCs.
Runway was on a slope high on the hill.
I heard them singing as they marched there.
I still remember the song ...
Goodbye, little green Legs
Goodbye, my hometown
Goodbye, white cloths waving hands
Cap We are a golden flower
Glitters brightly than riemumme
Oh great blue sky
Absorb the brave pilots
The Americans fought hard
to get through the fortified positions.
But unlike in the past
the Japanese began to surrender voluntarily.
At least a portion realized that the war was lost
and Bushido law was no longer relevant.
But still only a small minority steered clear of a prisoner.
Most of the fighting to the death.
Multi Okinawan civilian believed the Japanese propaganda
rather than waiting for any kind of mercy from the Americans.
Multi threw himself off a cliff with their children rather than surrendered.
Kamikazelentäjiä felt sufficiently indefinitely.
The Americans finally broke the defense.
The island's commandant, General Mitsuru Ushijima
committed suicide on 22 June.
Three months of harsh fighting ended in his death.
During the Battle of Okinawa died in 2394 kamikazelentäjää.
They sank 28 Allied ships and damaged 368 aa.
"Gods wind" did not stop the enemy
whose next target was, in Japan.
It seemed after the Okinawan experience scary thought.
The situation in Japan was in July 1945 in despair.
US submarines were cut off by sea.
Japan to raw materials was little.
B 29 R, B 17's and aircraft carriers machines
mercilessly bombed islands.
Japanese cities were destroyed systematically.
The final loss seemed to be close.
Some government wanted to start peace overtures
but the army refused to even consider surrendering.
It was preparing to combat the invasion
and the use of suicide weapons. Kamikazelentäjiä trained more.
Bomb Boats and Kaiten torpedoes were prepared thousands.
The entire Japanese population was brainwashed to fight to the last.
28 million civilians in armed
to support a total of 6,3 million soldiers and military employees.
The Allies were watching these preparations.
JAPAN (SUICIDE) assault UNITS
This map was assembled in the UK Bletchley Park intelligence unit
a museum it is exhibited.
Some even suggested that the entire population would make a suicide raid
so men, women and children.
The Allies began this knowledge to design a landing.
It was due to start 1. 11. 1945 countries rise in Kyushu
Japan's southernmost island.
The second step would have been an attack Tokyo Bay in March 1946.
The Allies remembered Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
The Japanese defended their homeland an even more fiercely
so the attackers will certainly suffer heavy losses
especially in the context of kamikazehyökkäysten.
The slain, was estimated to around one million.
But there was another option that could end the war quickly.
New Mexico desert was detonated July 16. atomic bomb.
Allies call for Japan to surrender unconditionally
or it would be destroyed utterly.
Japan rejected the claim
because it did not mention what would be the fate of the Emperor Hirohito.
The Allies did not escape options.
They had to wear a terrible destructive pommiaan.
The first was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August.
Japan is still bent
and three days later another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
The Japanese government was divided. Civilians wanted peace
and the soldiers wanted to continue the struggle.
Both parties finally decided to ask the emperor's position.
Hirohito knew his people have suffered enough already.
He avoided military coup notice to 14.8. on the radio
that Japan agreed to surrender.
The surrender was sealed two weeks later,
General MacArthur's supervision of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
Let us pray that the world will now return to peace ...
... And that God will preserve it forever.
This ceremony has ended.
The reasons for the use of atomic bombs has been debated since 1945 until now.
Japan attacks would have meant enormous losses
and kamikaze would have caused a large part of them.
Thousands of Bushido comply with the requirements of young idealists
were unquestionably brave fighters.
But they were also victims of suicidal idea.
It is said that they prolonged the selfish hopeless war
in order to guarantee themselves a place in heaven.
They do not fanaticism have seen the consequences of their actions.
Japan is now a kamikaze museum.
Young Japanese are trying to understand there's ancestral fathers motives.
Kamikazelentäjien families and the few survivors of the volunteers
continue to worship their lives uhranneiden memory.
Many others, this phase of Japanese history should not be forgotten.
Brave kamikaze were not able to prevent the inevitable loss.
Translated by: Kai Laine www.sdi media.com