Okinawa Dispatches
Marines in an airfield control tower got a shock when a plane loaded with Japanese commandos made a belly landing and the raiders began blowing up U.S. aircraft.
The deadly attacks Japanese suicide planes made against U.S. Navy ships are a prominent aspect of the Battle of Okinawa. Less well-known is a different sort of kamikaze attack that U.S. Marines guarding the island's Yontan Airfield contended with on the night of 24-25 May 1945. The...
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