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Much respect for Kamikaze pilots! I think almost nothing of their bodies would remain if they were able to hit their target. I mean the explosion, almost disappears their body, something like an infantry soldier being hit by direct artillery fire.
Thanks ARTESH.
Good or bad, such pictures of their last moments are still their message to the Japanese people telling like "Don't forget your pride".
This is heavy.
 
Thanks ARTESH.
Good or bad, such pictures of their last moments are still their message to the Japanese people telling like "Don't forget your pride".
This is heavy.
As time goes forward, many untold / unheard stories / documents will be published by ruling regime for different purposes. Beside that, it was my personal question that how the new generation of Japanese, children and grandchildren of veterans, think about these Kamikaze or Banzai charges? Or more general, WW2?
 
Good question as always, ARTESH.
Younger guys understand the history in their own feelings which I can't grasp well.
However, mobs are mobs as they are easily influenced by the government propaganda like "We hate China!"
Missing old Kamikaze warriors, they look same as the old Japanese basically.
 
The Japanese were attacking ships at sea and the Kamikaze missions didn't begin early enough to have found film on land bases. Not a big point or question, just curious.
 
Those Kamikaze pics were taken by the US side during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign on December 5, 1943.
In my limited knowledge, they could have been obtained in Sweden as introduced in any American news magazine(s) and sent by telephotography from Berlin like these photographs.

Germany makes public V-1 rocket structure in August, 1944.
 
Thanks for these posts, Shinpachi. I enjoy reading your translations. It's rare to see Japanese propaganda. I've seen stuff from the Allied and western Axis powers. Not as much Japanese and the little I did see, well, it's easier to figure out the German and Italian pieces. It really is informative. I love seeing the similarities to western news.
 

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