Historians have written a great deal about kamikaze aircraft in World War Ⅱ. The fanatical pilots used their aircraft as missiles in an attempt to destroy as many American ships and to kill as many American service members as possible. Yet, despite public fascination with these suicide weapons, historians have, for the most part, neglected the Imperial Japanese Navy's employment of suicide submarines. Michael Mair and Joy Waldrons Kaiten: Japan's Secret Manned Suicide Submarine and the First American Ship It Sank in WWⅡ addresses this void.
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