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Kamikazes
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Earle Rice |
Examines the events and personalities that were instrumental in Japan's adoption of kamikazi, or suicide, missions in the later stages of World War II. |
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Genda's Blade
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Henry Sakaida |
Beretter om den japanske, maritime flyvevåbenenhed nr. 343 fra 2. verdenskrig (Stillehavskrigen). |
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An awkward truth
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Peter Grose |
"Darwin was a battle Australia would rather forget, yet the Japanese attack on 16 February 1942 was the first foreign assault on Australian soil since 1788. The raid was bigger than the first wave th… |
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Hell from the heavens
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John F. Wukovits |
The destroyer USS Laffey (DD-724), second in World War Two to bear that name, was attacked by twenty-two kamikaze pilots and survived severe damage in April 1945 during the invasion of Okinawa. |
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The Kamikaze hunters
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Will Iredale |
"Follows a group of young men who fought towards the end of World War II, from their enlistment and initial training to the terrifying and unexpected reality of fighting against pilots who would rath… |
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Australia's Pearl Harbour
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Douglas Lockwood |
It reconstructs the bombing of Darwin by Japanese aircraft in February, 1942 during which 243 people were killed. It also looks at the civil and military panic that followed and the findings of the … |
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Zero - Japan's Legendary Fighter
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Robert C. Mikesh |
The most in-depth combat and development history of the Japanese Zero ever assembled! This superb history is told through first-person interviews with Zero pilots and the U.S. airmen who fought again… |
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