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kamikaze kamikaze target kamikaze strike Large hole and heavy damage on the deck of the USS Bunker Hill, with smoke rising and crew members gathered near the destruction after a kamikaze attack in June 1945.
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D-Day. American soldiers fire rifles, throw grenades and wade ashore on Omaha Beach next to a German bunker during D Day landing. 1 of 5 Allied beachheads est. in Normandy, France. The Normandy Invasion of World War II launched June 6, 1944.
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kamikaze: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Why Japan's Kamikaze Attacks Failed in WWII. Oct 13, 2026
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - The Last Kamikaze. Jul 10, 2026
Add new Web site: National Maritime Historical Society - International Journal of Naval History - Kamikazes: Understanding the Men behind the Myths. Apr 17, 2026
Add new Web site: Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus - Japan’s Kamikaze Pilots and Contemporary Suicide Bombers: War and Terror. Nov 14, 2025
Add new Web site: United States Naval War College Digital Commons - Kamikazes: The Soviet Legacy (PDF). Sep 26, 2025
Add new Web site: The National WWII Museum - The Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Pilots of World War II. May 23, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Earshot - Kamikaze pilots - myths and memories. Mar 27, 2025
Add new Web site: Education Resources Information Center - From Kamikaze to Jihadist: What Are Its Causes? (PDF). Jan 15, 2025
Add new Web site: Air and Space Forces Magazine - The Year of the Kamikaze. Nov 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Imperial War Museums - How effective was the Japanese kamikaze campaign? Sep 13, 2024
Add new Web site: National Archives - Kamikazes! May 31, 2024
Links added. Nov 16, 2023
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - The Last Kamikaze. Oct 11, 2023
Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - Kamikaze � The Divine Winds that Saved Japan. Aug 18, 2023
Add new Web site: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory - From Kamikaze to aegis: An introduction. Jul 07, 2023
Add new Web site: U.S.Naval Institute - Countering the Kamikaze. May 24, 2023
Add new Web site: American Heritage - Kamikazes Shock the Allies. Mar 31, 2023
Add new Web site: Warfare History Network - Japan�s Kamikaze Pilots Hit Hundreds of Ships. Feb 18, 2023
Add new Web site: Corporate Finance Institute - Kamikaze Defense. Sep 21, 2022
Add new Web site: The Holocaust Encyclopedia - Kamikaze attacks on US ships, 1945. Mar 07, 2021
Media added. Jan 07, 2020
Add new Web site: United States History for Kids - Kamikaze. Feb 27, 2019
Add new Web site: United States History - Kamikaze. Feb 27, 2019
Media added. Dec 28, 2016
Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - The Kamikazes. Mar 20, 2012
Add new Web site: History Learning Site - Kamikazes and World War Two. Mar 20, 2012
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - History - Kamikaze. Mar 18, 2012
Article revised and updated. Aug 23, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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