Saturday, August 29, 2009

Dying to Destroy Drives of the 'Divine Winds'

Dying to Destroy Drives of the 'Divine Winds'
In the contemporary history the unparalleled suicide airplane strike campaign of Kamikazes (Japanese, "divine wind"), to destroy American naval ships to hamper their advancement was a dreadful Japanese war tactic during the final phase of World War II. Japan marked its entrance into the blazing fold of Second Great War on December 7, 1941 by launching furious attack on American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.