The Kaiten Weapon

Author : Yutaka Yokota
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178625266X
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Kaiten Weapon written by Yutaka Yokota and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE KAITEN WEAPON is the full story of a fantastic suicide weapon—the manned torpedo —and of the volunteers who deliberately offered their lives in defense of Japan. So secret that few people even in Japan knew of its existence, the Kaiten force was a desperate and fanatic attempt to smash the U.S. fleet in the closing months of the war. Yutaka Yokota, a Kaiten force volunteer himself, tells how men were trained, gives complete details about the weapon’s performance and how it was operated, and provides a comprehensive account of every Kaiten mission. Joseph D. Harrington, an American expert on U.S. Naval operations in World War II, worked closely with Yokota in preparing this first English language edition of his book. In addition, he has provided an accurate appraisal from U.S. sources of the results of Kaiten attacks, making this the definitive work on one of the most bizarre and fanatical fighting groups of the war.

Author : Michael Mair
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0425272702
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Kaiten written by Michael Mair and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa exploded. Japan’s secret weapon, the Kaiten—a manned suicide submarine—had succeeded in its first mission. The Kaiten was so secret that even Japanese naval commanders didn’t know of its existence. And the Americans kept it secret as well. Embarrassed by the attack, the U.S. Navy refused to salvage the sunken Mighty Miss. Not until 2001, when a diving team located the wreck, would survivors learn what really happened. In Kaiten, Michael Mair and Joy Waldron tell the full story, from newly revealed secrets of the Kaiten development and training schools to gripping firsthand accounts of U.S. Navy survivors in the wake of the attack, as well as the harrowing recovery efforts that came later. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

Author : Yutaka Yokota
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345030290
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Suicide Submarine! (Formerly the Kaiten Weapon). written by Yutaka Yokota and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yutaka Yokota
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Suicide Submarine! written by Yutaka Yokota and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven J. Zaloga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849083541
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Kamikaze written by Steven J. Zaloga and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destruction of much of the remainder of the Japanese fleet and its air arm in the later half of 1944 left the Japanese Home Islands vulnerable to attack by US naval and air forces. In desperation, the Imperial Japanese Navy proposed using “special attack” formations, or suicide attacks. These initially consisted of crude improvisations of conventional aircraft fitted with high-explosive bombs that could be crashed into US warships. Called “Divine Wind” (Kamikaze), the special attack formations first saw action in 1944, and became the scourge of the US fleet in the battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945. In view of the success of these attacks, the Japanese armed forces began to develop an entire range of new special attack weapons. This book will begin by examining the initial kamikaze aircraft attacks, but the focus of the book will be on the dedicated special attack weapons developed in 1944. It also covers specialized suicide attack weapons such as anti-tank lunge mines.

Author : Eugene S. Mosley
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
ISBN 13 : 1956744061
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Footprints of the Montford Point Marines written by Eugene S. Mosley and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Footprints of the Montford Point Marines explores historic information about the Montford Point Marines and also my dad, Corporal Thomas Mosley, while serving with the first group of African American Marines in the United States. This is the story of a brief period of his life, from Montford Point Camp to the Pacific in World War II, and seventy years later being awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by Congress. These men came from all parts of the United States to the South to train at a segregated facility called Montford Point Camp, adjacent to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, the largest all-purpose Marine base in the world. It had the best equipment for all types of military training, but these new black enlistees at the adjacent Montford Point Camp were not allowed to enter unless accompanied by a White officer—Camp Lejeune was exclusive to White Marines and their families only. With World War II looming, the government needed all hands on deck and created millions of new jobs in preparation but continued keeping Blacks out of the job market and housing. With the pressure imposed by groups such as the NAACP, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to rethink these exclusions, at least in the federal workplace, and through negotiations with many groups, led by A. Philip Randolph, Executive Order 8802 was issued by President Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, to counter racial discrimination. The U.S. Marine Corps was part of the defense industry, and as a result had to open their ranks to African Americans who wished to serve. The Montford Point Marines became giants in the Asiatic Pacific and were some of the greatest heroes this country has ever known. Through swamps, hills, and worse terrain, under heavy enemy gunfire, they were able to supply ammunition, fuel, food, and medical supplies to troops on the front lines where most others had failed. They were also charged with removing the dead and wounded back to the safety of the ships waiting offshore. Eventually they were called to the front lines and fought in every major battle in the Pacific islands. Some seventy years later, on June 27, 2012, approximately four hundred of these brave men, mostly in their eighties and nineties, finally received their just recognition by receiving Congressional Gold Medals. Other families received the medal posthumously. From 1942 to 1949, the 19,168 Montford Point Marines paid the price so others could follow in their footprints to continue the legacy of the few, the proud, the Marines: Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful). They were also known as “The Chosen Few.”

Author : Michael Mair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615216447
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Oil, Fire, and Fate written by Michael Mair and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On April 16, 2001, at 12:10h (local time) at Ulithi Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia, USS Mississinewa (A)-59), the ghost ship of Ulithi Lagoon, is located. Thus ended an odyssey that began May 18, 1944 when the US Navy tanker was commissioned. Fifty seven year earlier USS Mississinewa had been sunk by Japan's secret weapon. The Japanese kaiten was an underwater craft, designed as a human torpedo and built solely as a suicide weapon. On that Monday morning, Sub-lieutenant Seiko Nishina steered his forty-eight-foot long kaiten into Ulithi lagoon and vowed, "I must not fail ... The emperor will reign 10,000 years!" Nishina's last view was the large numeral 59 on the starboard bow of Mississinewa. Nishina reached for the chout-su handle and the kaiten surged forward. Death was certain now. Duty, honor, patriotism, courage, hope and faith - these words inspired countless members of the twentieth century's 'Greatest generation' who fought for the United States in WWII, the greatest conflict in human history. The author heard the same words from aging Japanese veterans who fought to save Japan from inevitable defeat with a devastating, almost incomprehensible, weapon the Imperial Japanese Navy called kaiten."--Book jacket.

Author : Yutaka Yokota
Publisher : Banner of Truth
ISBN 13 : 9780843907230
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Kamikaze Submarine written by Yutaka Yokota and published by Banner of Truth. This book was released on 1980-02-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yutaka Yokota
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Suicide submarine!. written by Yutaka Yokota and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shoji Goji
Publisher : Kaiten Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 1952241286
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Loner Life in Another World Vol. 5 (manga) written by Shoji Goji and published by Kaiten Books LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIVE-FINGER DISCOUNT! ALL TREASURES MUST GO! Haruka's spent a while working his way back up from the dungeon depths with a new companion in tow, grabbing as many treasures as he can along the way. But will they be enough to contend with the mighty monster stampede threatening to wipe out the town he's come to know and...tolerate? And just what kinds of secrets does the mysterious Angelica hide? How might the Class Rep react when she gets a good look at what lurks beneath the Dungeon Emperor's armor? And, most importantly of all, will our hapless hero be allowed to return to his carefree loner life?