What were kamikaze attacks?
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They were sicidal attacks conducted during WWII by Japanese pilots against the US forces.
Explanation:
At the start suicidal attacks were sporadic extreme gestures of pilots in hopeless situation that decided to, basically, kind of give a sense to their incumbent death with a heroic extreme act.
These kind of sporadic extreme attacks were not a prerogative of Japanese pilot only. American pilots in extreme situations would crash intentionally against enemy targets as well.
The fact is that the Japanese high command decided to "organize" these special attacks to make the most of it creating "Special Units" of suicidal pilots.
These pilots would fly old airplanes full of explosive or with a bomb attached to them and, escorted by veterans to defend them from the enemy fighters, crash against a US ship.
We have to remember that towards the end of the war in the Pacific to be a Japanese pilot and to go out on a mission was basically a suicidal mission anyway.
Poor training, due to lack of fuel and time, old and worn out airplanes, unrealistic targets and absurd missions made the life of a Japanese pilot a suicidal mission.
At the end, Japanese pilots could more or less take off and fly in a straight line but certainly, in combat, they wolud have been massacred; and even if they survived probably they couldn't find their airports and even less probably land on them.
