Category: Japanese Air Force

• Japanese War Crimes and Atrocities during World War II

  

  October 5, 2024

  1930s, 1940s, History Daily, Japanese Air Force, Japanese Army, Japanese Navy, military history, murder, Prisoner of War, Sino-Japanese War, Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, war, War Crimes, World War II

  1930s, 1940s, Atrocities, Death, event & history, History Daily, Japanese Air Force, Japanese Army, Japanese Imperial Family, Japanese Navy, murder, Prisoner of War, World War II

• The Divine Wind: Japanese Kamikazes of World War II

  

  Image: Japanese high school girls wave farewell to departing Kamikaze pilots. “There was a hypnotic fascination to the sight so alien to our Western philosophy. We watched each plunging kamikaze with the detached horror of one witnessing a terrible spectacle rather than as the intended victim. We forgot self for the moment as we groped…

  October 1, 2024

  1940s, History Daily, Japanese Air Force, Japanese Navy, Kamikazes, Pilots, The Divine Wind, US Navy, World War II

  1940s, American History, History Daily, Japanese Air Force, Japanese Navy, Kamikazes, Pilots, The Divine Wind, US Navy