A Japanese kamikaze pilot flew towards the battleship USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1845, in the Battle of Okinawa. He died though the crew members of the battleship were not severely injured.
However, to everyone’s surprise, Capt. William Callaghan of USS Missouri ordered a military burial at sea for the pilot with honour, as they would have done for one of their sailors.
Now, the USS Missouri has become a museum ship moored at Hawaii’s Pearl Harbour. On Friday, three of the captain’s grandsons would mark the anniversary of the attack.
Kamikaze pilots were a part of a suicide attack campaign launched by Japan as a last resort to push U.S forces back when the latter was losing.
These pilots flew hastily made aircraft due to lack of equipment, often going on suicide missions with enough fuel to just reach their targets.
They sank their first vessel in 1944 and killed 7000 Allied Navy personnel, but their 30% success rate
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