Kamikazes
...ife for there Emperor God, he would in return deliver them through there darkest hour. In fact, so many pilots volunteered that there were three times as many applicants then there were planes to hold them. Many of the kamikaze pilots were in there late teens or early twenties with full lives ahead of them. The fact still remained, they would do anything and everything to protect there homes at all costs. The theory of sneak attacks was new and effective in World War II. By the end of the war, kamikaze pilots had killed 3,048 allied soldiers and wounded 6,025 more. The suicide missions were a huge part in the Japanese defense and a main reason they stayed in the war as long as they did. Many of the suicide attacks were not planned but the pilot’s choice when he saw no defense to the American aircraft he would crash into it purposefully to ward off a threat to his country. The kamikaze pilots were willing to do anything to protect there homeland and if dying was needed they were happy to do so. For the Japanese they saw no other way to fight back against the U.S. military advancing into there homeland. The kamikaze pilots were in no way war criminals. They merely did there job and what was asked of them. In all of the kamikaze attacks no citizens were reported to be a casualty. The soldiers are looked at as heroes in Japan for giving so mu...