Fire from the Sky: Surviving the Kamikaze Threat

by Robert C. Stern

By late 1944 the war in the Pacific had turned decisively against the Japanese, and overwhelming Allied forces began to close in on the home islands. At this point Japan unveiled a terrifying new tactic: the suicide attack, or Kamikaze, named after the Divine Wind which had once before, in medieval times, saved Japan from invasion. Intentionally crashing bomb-laden aircraft into Allied warships, these piloted guided missiles at first seemed unstoppable,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591142679
• ISBN13: 9781591142676
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"