Friday, May 22, 2009

Kingdom of the Sun

If you look up the term kamikaze in your dictionary you'll find a definition like this: "used to describe someone who is willing to take risks, without caring about their safety."


Churchill sent a letter to Roosevelt, the president of the states, with this purport that the Allies had enough encumbers in the heart of Europe and they couldn't take measures about this new hellish might . USA had to face it before they lost every thing. USA had to fight with Japan.

American Army general, Douglas Macarthur, started to attack Japan, but Japan responded to the actions in the Pearl Harbor and annihilated all American naval forces in the Pacific Ocean. But in the Midway Battle, American bombers bombarded Japanese's great armada; on the other hand Britain put a stop to Japanese's advance. Japan was in the center of a war of attrition just like Germany.
A Japanese fleet admiral, Takishiro Onishi, after a short training course, decided to do something quite peculiar i.e. he said goodbye to his coworkers, boarded his fighter with 200 kilo explosives and vanished forever…at first American generals considered the attacks and encounters as a stroke of luck…but there was a blizzard on the way of Americans…
In 1944, when American navies were involved in the greatest maritime war ever, they faced bunches of Japanese fight. From every branch maybe one of the fighters could approach the American navies in per attack; however, the very one fighter was enough to sink a navy into the deep blue. Just in the Okinawa battle, in 1945, 2000 Japanese pilots pierced 300 American battleships; Japan just owned 64 battleships that time. The pilots those were famous as Kamikazes were the only reason of Japan's standing against the allies.
General Macarthur sent a latter to Truman, the new president, and explained the Japanese's motivation." In the case that you wanna win this war, you have two ways to react: first you must accept the death of one million of American troops and second…you need a miracle!"
Truman ended this war with Fat Man and Little Boy.

American naval forces didn't show any pictures and documentaries of Kamikazes' missions for many years. Images show that most of the Japanese pilots were about 17 to 22 years old and most of them were all educated students. There were some statements in the frameworks of their fighters like this: "I like my life but my country is more important than my life."

Kamikaze means wind of god in Japanese. It has been said that when Mongolian wanted to attack Japan, there was a blizzard that stopped them. Japanese called that blizzard kamikaze.

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