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Old 03-14-17, 02:43 AM   #1876
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Old 03-14-17, 12:14 PM   #1877
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Old 03-15-17, 12:00 PM   #1878
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Old 03-18-17, 08:32 AM   #1881
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Chiran high school girls wave farewell with cherry blossom branches to departing kamikaze pilot in a Nakajima Ki-43-IIIa Hayabusa
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^ Yes, you are quite correct. I picked the wrong nationality folder in error. Thanks for pointing that out.

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A kamikaze attack on a US warship during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944
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Default newly dicovered unpublished fotos: British Pacific war carrier action

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Photo album belonged to the late Edward Stewart of Raglan, Monmouthshire, who served in the Royal Navy He is believed to have worked on Pacific Post newspaper for naval servicemen, which is how he came by the photos that are mostly unpublished
A Corsair bursts into flames landing on a British carrierhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3610318/WWII-photos-reveal-kamikaze-attacks-Allied-aircraft-carriers-Pacific.html HMS Indomitable: HMS Formidable after Kamikaze attack:
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Approximately 2,800 Kamikaze attackers sank 34 Navy ships, damaged 368 others, killed 4,900 sailors, and wounded over 4,800. Despite radar detection and cuing, airborne interception, attrition, and massive anti-aircraft barrages, 14 percent of Kamikazes survived to score a hit on a ship; nearly 8.5 percent of all ships hit by Kamikazes sank.Australian journalists Denis and Peggy Warner, in a 1982 book with Japanese naval historian Sadao Seno (The Sacred Warriors: Japan’s Suicide Legions), arrived at a total of 57 ships sunk by kamikazes. Bill Gordon, an American Japanologist who specialises in kamikazes, lists in a 2007 article 47 ships known to have been sunk by kamikaze aircraft. Gordon says that the Warners and Seno included ten ships that did not sink. He lists:
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