Operation Kikusui - Wikipedia Operation Kikusui (菊水作戦, Kikusui sakusen) was a series of mass suicidal air attacks (kamikaze) by Imperial Japanese naval and army air forces during the Battle of Okinawa against Allied fleets in the waters around Okinawa
The Royal Navys Pacific Strike Force - U. S. Naval Institute On 1 April, D-day for U S soldiers and Marines landing on Okinawa, the Indefatigable became the first British carrier to be hit by a kamikaze when a Zero broke through the ship’s CAP and crashed into the base of her island
The Royal Navy in the Pacific fighting Kamikaze - War History Online Between April and May 1945 all British aircraft carriers in the Pacific were attacked by the kamikaze aircraft Japan’s kamikaze pilots put fear into Allied troops as they had to battle the suicide bombers throughout the Pacific operation of World War Two
The Forgotten Fleet - Warfare History Network In addition to the regular air raids, for several days the force bombarded the islands without provoking much response from the Japanese However, that all changed on April 2, 1945, the day after American troops stormed ashore on Okinawa
Kamikaze: Fire from the sky - The Past The battleship USS Missouri under attack by a kamikaze off Okinawa, 11 April 1945 The aircraft hit the side of the vessel, causing minor damage but – amazingly – no casualties among the ship’s crew
HMS Indomitable - Armoured Aircraft Carriers in World War II HMS Indomitable’s 1945 kamikaze attacks off Okinawa: April 1 strafing and May 4 Zeke strike, armoured flight deck damage, evasive action, casualties and rapid recovery with British Pacific Fleet Task Force 57
The Kamikaze War – Inside the U. S. Navy’s Race to Defeat Japan’s . . . In planning for the invasion of Okinawa, U S commanders anticipated large-scale kamikaze attacks A ring of 15 radar pickets was set up 40 to 60 miles from the invasion fleet’s operating area to give warships advance warning of Japanese air attacks from Kyushu and Taiwan