Thanks, Steve. Cutting to just the Kamikazes, that's a lot of those younger, less-experienced pilots. As the U.S. lost around ten ships there (mostly destroyers) due to air assaults, even if those were all off Kamikaze hits, one could see how inefficient those tactics were by that late stage in the campaign.VBF-13,According to the book, " Kamikazes, Corsairs, and Picket Ships" , at Okinawa the Japanese flew 2750 kamikaze sorties