Desperate Sunset

Japan’s kamikazes against Allied ships, 1944–45

Mike Yeo

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English

Osprey
21 January 2020

History; Second World War; Naval forces & warfare; Air forces & warfare; Military & naval ships; Military aircraft

By the middle of 1944, Imperial Japan’s armed forces were in an increasingly desperate situation. Its elite air corps had been wiped out over the Solomons in 1942–43, and its navy was a shadow of the force that had attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. But the Japanese had one last, desperate, card to play.

The Japanese High Command decided that the way to inflict maximum damage on the superior enemy forces was to get the poorly trained Japanese pilots to crash their explosive-laden aircraft onto their target, essentially turning themselves into a guided missile. The kamikazes announced themselves in the immediate aftermath of the Leyte Gulf naval battles, sinking the USS St. Lo and damaging several other ships. The zenith of the kamikaze came in the battle of Okinawa, which included ten kikusui (Floating Chrysanthemum) operations which involved up to several hundred aircraft attacking the US fleet.

Fully illustrated throughout, Desperate Sunset examines the development and evolution of the kamikaze using first-hand accounts, combat reports and archived histories.

By: Mike Yeo
Imprint: Osprey
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 190mm,
Weight: 1.466kg
ISBN: 9781472829412
ISBN 10: 1472829417
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 21 January 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Prelude to the Tokko-tai /2. The Philippines /3.: Okinawa /4. Other campaigns /Appendices /Notes /Bibliography /Index

Mike Yeo is a Singaporean aviation enthusiast and a keen student of aviation history and the Pacific War who is currently based in Melbourne, Australia. He has studied World War II military aviation, with a particular focus on the Pacific War campaign. He is a freelance military/defence journalist specialising in the Asia-Pacific region, and has written for Shephard Media, the United States Naval Institute, Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, Aviation International News, Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter and Asian Military Review.