hmm..i'm a student who is studying about the battle of Midway, if you people have any more websites or links that could help me out, please post them up...also as i asked the question above, i want to know were kamikazes (sucide airplane) used in the Battle of Midway
2007-02-21 13:01:15 · 8 answers · asked by RuKi 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
No. The Japanese Air Force suffered heavy losses of aircraft and pilots at Midway which led to the use of suicide tactics.
After the fall of Saipan in July, 1944, Admiral Takijiro Onishi, commander of 1st Air Fleet in the Philippines, created the Special Attack Group of suicide dive-bombing pilots known as kamikazes. Young men were inspired to volunteer as they wished to die for their country. Pilots were trained in just over a week to fly their modified Mitsubishi A6M fighters.
The first kamikaze attack on enemy warships first took place in the struggle for the Philippines in 1944. Kamikaze pilots aimed at the central elevator on carriers and the base of the bridge on large warships. As they had to fly at low altitudes they were very vulnerable to anti-aircraft guns.
During April 1945 kamikaze pilots under Admiral Soema Toyoda launched 1,400 suicide missions as part of Operation Ten-Go. It is estimated that these suicide pilots sunk 26 ships during this campaign. More than 2,000 kamikaze missions were also flown against the US fleet at Okinawa (April-July 1945). By this time the US Navy had learnt how to deal with kamikaze attacks and few ships were hit.
Kamikaze pilots continued to be active until the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Admiral Takijiro Onishi, the commander of the Special Attack Group, committed suicide when he heard that Emperor Hirohito had surrendered.
2007-02-22 08:54:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_midway
The easy route. I don't believe they were using the Kamikaze at that point, as they had not reached that level of desperation yet. Midway was the battle that turned the tide against Japan, after that with the outcome looking bleak, they turned to more drastic techniques, i.e., Kamikaze and charges against machine gun nests being led by a commander with a sword. Genius.
2007-02-21 21:07:20 · answer #2 · answered by Tucson Hooligan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I believe the first deliberate kamikaze attacks occured in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. The attacks were in full swing at Okinawa. But pilots of badly damaged planes had purposely crashed into ships and buildings since the begining of the war.
2007-02-21 21:09:15 · answer #3 · answered by Caleb F 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Kamikaze as we know them did not happen until later in the war. However such was the warrior's code that Japanese pilots lived by if their plane was damaged they were taught to inflict as much damage as possible. It wasn't until the Japanese were without any experienced pilots that the kamikaze came about.
2007-02-22 10:24:56 · answer #4 · answered by rz1971 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No such kamakaze attacks occurred during Midway. Midway was fought by first-string veterans of Pearl Harbor and they didn't go in for this sort of stuf
2007-02-21 21:05:57 · answer #5 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they were used to attack the USS Carrier Yorktown.
2007-02-21 21:04:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, it was too early in the war for kamikazees. they didnt start using them until america had advanced to the home islands
2007-02-21 21:06:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully these will help you
2007-02-21 21:15:17 · answer #8 · answered by Mike J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋