captivatinghistory on Instagram: "The restored archival footage (April, 1945) shows how a Japanese Kamikaze pilot deliberately crashed his plane into an American warship during World War II, which resulted in suicide. This was not an accident. Kamikaze attacks were a Japanese suicide bombing tactic, designed to destroy enemy warships during World War II. Pilots would crash their specially made planes directly into Allied ships. Kamikaze tactics were born out of a combination of desperation and a

The United States Navy begin to feel the wrath of the kamikaze attacks in October 1944. 💥 Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force leadership advocated the use of the tokko-tai (Tokubetsu Kogekitai) tactics against the Allied forces in their bid to ward off the impending invasion of the Philippine Islands. 🇯🇵 Numerous US Navy ships will become targets of such attacks and several US destroyers become victims of these one-way suicide missions. ⚓️ #WW2inPH #WWII #WW2 #BattleofLeyteGulf #Kamikaze | World