The Kamikaze Hunters
In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle to control the Pacific. And it was then that the Japanese unleashed a terrible new form of warfare: the suicide pilots, or Kamikaze.Drawing on meticulous research and unique personal access to the remaining survivors, Will Iredale follows a group of young men from the moment they signed up through their initial training to the terrifying reality of fighting against pilots who, in the cruel last summer of the war, chose death rather than risk their country's dishonorable defeat—and deliberately flew their planes into Allied aircraft carriers.
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The Kamikaze Hunters
In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle to control the Pacific. And it was then that the Japanese unleashed a terrible new form of warfare: the suicide pilots, or Kamikaze.Drawing on meticulous research and unique personal access to the remaining survivors, Will Iredale follows a group of young men from the moment they signed up through their initial training to the terrifying reality of fighting against pilots who, in the cruel last summer of the war, chose death rather than risk their country's dishonorable defeat—and deliberately flew their planes into Allied aircraft carriers.
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The Kamikaze Hunters

The Kamikaze Hunters

by Will Iredale
The Kamikaze Hunters

The Kamikaze Hunters

by Will Iredale

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Overview

In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle to control the Pacific. And it was then that the Japanese unleashed a terrible new form of warfare: the suicide pilots, or Kamikaze.Drawing on meticulous research and unique personal access to the remaining survivors, Will Iredale follows a group of young men from the moment they signed up through their initial training to the terrifying reality of fighting against pilots who, in the cruel last summer of the war, chose death rather than risk their country's dishonorable defeat—and deliberately flew their planes into Allied aircraft carriers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781681771793
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Publication date: 06/07/2016
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 400
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Will Iredale joined the London Sunday Times in 1999, working first on the foreign news desk and subsequently undercover investigations. He lives in London with his family. This is his first book.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Maps xi

Prologue 1

Introduction 6

1 Flying sailors 13

2 They were like gods 27

3 Wakey-wakey, rise and shine, show a leg 51

4 Bags of food and lights and girls 70

5 Wings 83

6 They don't know what they want and they won't be happy till they get it 100

7 Flat-hatters 115

8 Blooded 136

9 Flat tops 152

10 An enterprise of the first magnitude 166

11 The balloons go up 184

12 The jitter effect 203

13 The body crashers 223

14 April fools 246

15 A formidable return 261

16 Little yellow baskets 269

17 Breaking point 286

18 The absolute full 303

19 The final onslaught 320

Epilogue 340

Acknowledgements 347

Bibliography 349

Notes and References 353

Index 371

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