(1) The kamikaze attacks were a demonstration of spiritual courage and determination.(2) At Okinawa in 1945, out of 193 kamikaze attacks, 169 planes were destroyed.(3) The first modern instance was in 1944-45, when the US navy was confronted by kamikaze pilots trying to fly planes loaded with high explosive into their ships as they approached Japan.(4) Their value to the fleet was highlighted during the invasion of Okinawa, when kamikaze attacks upon the Fifth Fleet created high numbers of casualties among the forces afloat.(5) It has been estimated that 5,000 kamikaze pilots died.(6) One point Hanson alludes to is the real difference between the Japanese kamikaze as a tactical weapon of terror and the fanatical suicide zealot as a terrorist.(7) Lee bounds to the crease like jello on springs, Collingwood dabs him down and England take another kamikaze run.(8) Richard does a kamikaze run in minus 20 celsius and snowing weather, getting pelted with paintballs.(9) However, the destruction of so many kamikaze flights did a great deal to undermine the potential for damage that the kamikazes could have inflicted.(10) References to Pearl Harbor and kamikaze pilots could stir up old WWII prejudices against Japanese-Americans.(11) But the spectre of kamikaze strikes makes any talk of the potentially positive contribution nuclear energy could make to a balanced and renewable energy supply fraught with difficulty.(12) They came at him from every direction, not moving with their usual shuffle, but in a frenzied kamikaze attack.(13) Yet there are worrying signs that the prime minister plans to end his war against the real Labour party with kamikaze attacks on its most cherished values.(14) Suicidal attacks by undisguised military forces, exemplified by Japanese kamikaze attacks during World War II, are not a violation of the laws of war.(15) Iwo Jima helped teach us how to deal with kamikazes .(16) Admittedly, people have made too much of the apocryphal remark attributed to Adm Chester Nimitz that no surprises occurred in the Second World War in the Pacific except the kamikazes .
