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The Kamikaze Who Missed on Purpose
On October 25, 1944, during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, Ensign Masajiro Miyashita flew his Zero toward the USS Kaloli, then pulled up at the last second and deliberately flew past the carrier without attacking, landing...
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The Last kamikaze: October 1945
Japan officially surrendered on September 2, 1945. But on October 18, 1945 — six weeks after the surrender — a Japanese pilot named Lieutenant Second Class Kazuo Odashima took off from Kanoya airfield in a Mitsubishi Ki-...