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Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee
Kamikaze pilots were always told to go after capital ships, so I don't think they'd ever bother w/a submarine.
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That's the odd irony of the kamikaze program. They were told to concentrate on sinking capital ships; carriers, battleships, cruisers, etc. But it was the picket destroyers at Okinawa that took the biggest beating. The poorly trained Japanese pilots simply didn't know the difference. As far as I know US submarines were never attacked by kamikazes. Probably because kamikazes were usually held in reserve for attacking large amphibious forces en masse. They weren't expected to fly routine patrol missions.