Japanese Were Traumatized When 1500 Japanese Pilots Lost Their Lives Attacking American Ships in WW2

2024-07-24に共有

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The American military's ultimate goal during World War II was to take Okinawa, located in the Ryukyu archipelago, as a base of operations for the anticipated invasion of Japan. The battle for Okinawa was a bloody and protracted struggle, costing the Americans about 39,000 soldiers in killed, wounded, and missing counts. The Japanese suffered horrific losses, with 110,000 killed and 11,000 taken prisoner. To protect Okinawa, Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner created an early warning system against massed Japanese air strikes, setting up sixteen radar picket stations. The Japanese Fifth Air Fleet was ready to fight to the death to protect Okinawa by spring 1945, using up to 4,500 aircraft in massive kamikaze sorties and the Ohka flying bomb.

Kamikaze pilots, who were Japanese suicide pilots, participated in rites and ceremonies before their final flights, leaving behind hair strands, fingernails, or severed fingers for enshrinement. The Americans were subjected to the ferocity of the Kamikaze, and they found it difficult to accept that men fighting for their lives were protecting themselves against an adversary whose goal was to perish and do as much harm as possible. Approximately 1,500 Japanese suicide pilots lost their lives attacking American ships during the Okinawa campaign, with 3,048 sailors killed and 6,035 wounded. The USS Hugh W. Hadley, a Sumner-class destroyer, is particularly remarkable for its brutal battle off the coast of Okinawa. The Hadley was armed with six 5-inch cannons, ten 21-inch torpedo tubes, twelve 40mm Bofors and eleven 20mm Oerlikon antiaircraft guns, six depth-charge projectors, and two depth-charge tracks.
On May 11, 1945, the USS Hadley, a picket destroyer, encountered a Japanese floatplane near Radar Picket Station 15. The floatplane was a sign of the Kamikaze tempest, which would eventually burst. The Hadley and Evans battled for two hours against the waves of Japanese planes. The Japanese planes were a precursor to over 150 enemy aircraft, including bombers, kamikazes, and Ohkas. The USS Hadley and the Evans faced constant Japanese suicide strikes, and the destroyers struggled to focus their fire. The Hadley faced a Japanese Aichi D3A Val dive bomber, which was damaged and ripped off, causing the plane to nose up and fall into the sea.
The USS Evans, a battleship, was attacked by Japanese aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa. The Corsair pilots of the combat air patrol shot down the Japanese planes, but the Marine pilots pursued them, forcing them to make erratic maneuvers. The Hadley's gunners destroyed twelve enemy aircraft in the chaotic thirty minutes between 8:30 and 9 am when kamikazes hit it at steep dives of 45 degrees or greater. The Evans was attacked from almost every direction, taking down fifteen planes in total and helping bring down another four. The ship was damaged by a Kamikaze dive bomber, causing significant damage and causing the ship to sink. The Hadley fought off the enemy singlehanded for 20 minutes, but was virtually crushed by an overwhelming attack that broke through the fortifications just after the damage. The Hadley suffered severe injuries, including being hit by three Kamikazes and one 550-pound bomb during a fierce four minutes of battle.
Commander Mullaney and his crew fought to maintain the buoyancy of the USS Hadley during the May 11 picket line battle. The ship was badly holed, flooded, and surrounded by dense black smoke. The crew was rescued by other ships, and the ship was credited with downing 23 Japanese aircraft, setting a U.S. Navy record for most enemy planes destroyed in one action. The Hadley was decommissioned on November 7, 1945, and struck from the U.S. register on November 28. The rotting hulk was sold for scrap on February 11, 1947. Commander Mullaney and Lieutenant Patrick H. McGann were awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star, and Bronze Star, while seven other crew men received the Silver Star and Bronze Star. Each member of the crew was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation.
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@garypillischafske1425 3日前

The Japenese can thank the Kamikazi attitude for the Nukes. It left us no other choice.

Ai is pathetic.

@garymorgan8915 3日前

Ai narratives suck😂

@Skoko1945-xo3yn 3日前

So many missed pronounced words.

@treesixtyeight 2日前

It's like the AI voice is "reading" an actual script, mispronuciations included, the the screen text is taken from that, resulting in the butchery we see on the screen.

@steveschlackman4503 昨日

Kind of sad that Okinawa and kamikaze were consistently mispronounced.

@christophercook723 昨日

It's not that challenging to say Kamikaze properly.😢

@mikehigginbotham585 2日前

I sure do wish they could get a live Human to narrate these clips rather than the AI I have never heard Okinawa and Kamikaze mispronounced so many different ways in my life and some of the islands that he tried to identify I couldn't even figure out what he was talking about😢