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[edit] Effectiveness of Kamikaze Pilots

I think I would interesting to note how effective kamikaze bombings were from a military perspective. For example, let say if 100 total pilots attacked, and 10% hit, and each killed 500 people (obviously my numbers are greatly skewed), then the kamikaze's would have been a successful military tactic (provided the cost of their aircraft did not outweigh this loss of life). At least some sentence, if not a section, should be included in the article about its effectiveness, because that is one of the main questions that comes to my mind.

See Kamikaze#Effects. Grant65 | Talk 02:31, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

• In theory, I would actually think that having your untrained pilots throw away their lives to take out a major enemy warship to be a very efficient use of wartime resources. But I guess in practice that turned out not to be the case? That one History Channel thing showed a single unescorted destroyer taking some 3-4 kamikaze hits and still making it out alive, so the larger fleet groups with fighter sweeps and overlapping AA batteries could probably withstand large wave attacks and still come out relatively intact. I dunno, I would like to see something on how well the actual military effectiveness measured up to the psychological impact Masterblooregard 18:55, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
  • The Kamikaze attacks came close, but not quite, on having a significant impact on U.S. naval operations in the Pacific. As losses from kamikaze began to mount, Allied forces responded by reorganizing their combat air patrol structure, placing pickett ships to provide early warning of inbound kamikaze, and attacking the airfields in Taiwan, Kyushu, and other areas where kamikaze aircraft and their pilots were based. This greatly reduced the effectiveness of kamikaze tactics. If the Allies hadn't taken these countermeasures, the kamikaze could have significantly slowed Allied operations in the Philippines and the Japanese territories. Cla68 23:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Irokawa Daikichi

I don't think it's quite clear which parts are quoted from Irokawa Daikichi. Could the person who added the quote, or someone else who has access to the source, please rectify this? Thank you. LordAmeth 16:06, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Headband called hachimaki

Please include the information that the headband is called a hachimaki into the article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.64.169.14 (talk) 11:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chiran High School Girls Farewell Picture Doctored or Manufactured?

Chiran high school girls wave farewell with cherry blossom branches to departing kamikaze pilot in a Ki-43-II Hayabusa.

It appears to me that this photograph was doctored. It looks, when viewed at full size, to be a composite picture. The edges around the girls arms are too crisp and too sharp and, likewise, the officer to the left who salutes the pilot appears to have been cropped in.

What do the rest of you think?

Regards,

James R. Mireles

Houston, Texas

It does look weird. We might should submit this photo to the image peer review forum (I'll have to find the link) to see what they say. Cla68 (talk) 02:52, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

If it has been forged during the war, still the interesting material. Just need to know. Audriusa (talk) 19:35, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reverted addition

I've reverted 189.140.181.60's addition of the following text to the beginning of the "Definition and etymology" section, since it wasn't very well integrated with the rest of the text and in any case wasn't referenced nor in a neutral tone:

honorable man who fought until the end, wishing to do one final effort and die rather than live as a dishonorable man

That said, I figured that, since it was probably added in good faith, I should move it here to this talk page — rather than just removing it entirely — just in case someone else might find it worth properly integrating into the article, with appropriate attribution for the viewpoint expressed therein. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:16, 1 June 2008 (UTC)