The last Kamikaze. Testimonials from WWII suicide pilots
Description
This film explores the minds of former suicide bombers who participated in the first well-orchestrated suicide mission in modern history, the one carried out by the air arm of the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII. Although in the beginning, these suicide pilots were university graduates and intellectual elites in their 20s, by 1942 the Navy was aggressively recruiting a large number of boys who were only in their low teens. Fortunately, some never flew their final suicide mission because the war ended before it was their turn to fly out.
Runtime
63 min
Creator
Takahashi, Masami
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2007
Database
Alexander Street
Direct Link
Similar Films
Transforming America. Road to war. Lesson 13
Song of survival
Secrets of World War II. Human torpedoes
Mr. and Mrs. America
Peenemünde, Baltic coast, Germany
D-day minus one
The unknown battle
Transforming America. World at war. Lesson 14
Conflict in Europe. 1935-1945. The Treaty of Versailles & the League of Nations. Part one
The African Americans. Many rivers to cross. Rise!: 1940-1986. Episode 5
The fighting French
1945. Year of Victory
Transforming America. World at war. Lesson 14
Up the Solomon's ladder. Bougainville
Year by Year. 1944