Japanese launch kamikaze attacks on Americans off Okinawa 70 years ago today (Apr 6 1945)


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(Friday, April 6, 1945, 3:00 p.m. JST; during the Battle of Okinawa, part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II) — Starting today (through the end of the battle on June 22, 1945), the Japanese flew 1,465 kamikaze aircraft in large-scale attacks from Kyushu, 185 individual kamikaze sorties from Kyushu, and 250 individual kamikaze sorties from Formosa.


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