All language subtitles for BBC Gladiators Of WWII 09of13 Kamikaze

WAR AND SOLDIERS

KAMIKAZELENTÄJÄT

When the Americans were fighting
in the Philippines in autumn 1944

against them was attacked by
a new and frightening ways.

The Japanese pilots
collided computers ships

and tried to take them with him.

It shocked the Americans badly.

We thought we had already won the war.

Kamikazehyökkäykset säikyttivät
us almost järjiltämme.

I watched the approaching aircraft.

It came like a slow motion.

I almost saw bullets hitting the deck.

Upper body was a flight deck to date.

The pilot did not correct aircraft. I
shouted: "Straighten, goddamn it!"

During the 8 months were damaged
or sunk more than 500 ships.

5000 Marine soldiers were killed
and almost as many were wounded.

The attacks accelerated as and
when Japan was approaching.

It was a foretaste of what the
Japanese islands could be in front.

Kamikazelentäjät were very young.

Their tactic language of despair

but its roots were deep in the
Japanese warrior tradition.

Samurai warriors were
born in medieval Japan.

They followed the Bushido
, or "way of the warrior" ways.

They require a samurai
to absolute obedience.

He had to be ready to die for
his lord or the Emperor.

In this way, the dead
samurai would arise again.

Bushido cult strengthened again
after the 1st World War.

It was a reaction to the
democratization of corruption fueled.

The disappointed youth
and especially officers

calling for a return to traditional values.

Strong population growth eroded at
the same time the Japanese economy.

March, which is totally dependent on
imports. Unemployment and poverty increased.

Begun in 1929, the recession
exacerbated the situation.

Armed Forces of the matter was conquests.

Japan captured the 30 beginning of the
century living space in Manchuria.

Then, in July 1937 Japan invaded China.

It began eight long years of war.

The Japanese army introduced the
Bushido worst aspects

the enemy of contempt and
complete ruthlessness.

On the Chinese civilians atrocities
shocked the whole world.

The army ignored the protests
of informed but to serve Caesar

which it still held infallible god.

The army scrape under the guise of
the same excuse for more power.

Gen. Hideki Tojosta became
defense minister in 1940.

Military power was now virtually unlimited.

He drove a sharp line in
relations with the West

who opposed the Chinese invasion.

US President Roosevelt responded by
declaring Japan's trade embargo.

Japan was either bend over
or buy a raw materials

such as oil and rubber, which
are received in Southeast Asia.

Thus was born the idea of the
Japanese-dominated Greater Asia

which included East Indian, Malay,
Thailand, Burma and the Philippines.

USA's strong Pacific fleet

was the main obstacle to these plans.

So we started planning its destruction.

Admiral Yamamoto, the Pearl
Harbor attack planner

knew that the US would recover
industrialized attack in half a year.

He believed in it enough
to expand the empire.

Since then, could only hope

that the United States consider the war
against Japan would be too expensive.

Yamamoto was right

that six months would be
sufficient predatory regions.

Pearl Harbor that is, 7. 12. 1941
and May 1942, during the period

Japan achieved all of its objectives.

The Japanese army proved to
be the West's troops like.

But Bushido Law prompted them
to take the suicide attacks.

The soldiers were taught that the
surrender was a great shame.

Therefore, they treated the
prisoners very cruelly

and in complete violation
of the Geneva Convention.

It was not worried about them in the
spring of 1942. Japan was overjoyed.

Its unbeatable army of young men crowding

who wanted to share the honor.

The fortunes of war was rejected
by the Japanese quickly.

They attacked in June 1942 Midwayhin

1800 km north-west of Pearl Harbor.

But the Americans knew to expect an attack.

Pacific Fleet support ships were ready.

All four sent to attack
carriers were destroyed.

Navy greats disappeared into thin air.

US counter-attack started two months later.

The troops made the
invasion of Guadalcanal.

The Japanese did not give up
the island without resistance

and Guadalcanal were
fighting for half a year.

USA progressed towards the north

but encountered each island
increasingly stronger resistance.

The situation was the same
middle part of the Pacific.

They were cruel sadists.

They wanted to die for the
emperor, and we helped them.

The Japanese fought to the end.
Only the wounded surrendered.

Itsemurharynnäköitä was seen
with increasing frequency.

The Americans reached in
July 1944 Mariana Islands.

The huge B 29 machines reached
from there to bomb Japan.

Japanese desperation got the new forms.

It was not planned, but
began quite spontaneously.

Two pilots announced during air combat

that they had no more ammunition, and they were
going to walk into the B 29, respectively.

I saw them flying intentionally
in the B 29 Return key.

B 29's falling to the ground

and pilots were to die in
defense of their fatherland.

Many others soon followed suit.

The Japanese had a thirst for the
death of these soldiers a new weapon.

The US was preparing to October
1944 release of the Philippines.

It faced attacked over the sea
the center of the Admiral Nimitz

and proceeded south-western
islands of General MacArthur.

The Japanese made preparations
to defend the islands

that protected Japan.

Defence Line Kurilleilta stretched
from the Dutch East Indies.

The plan was called
Operation Sho, "victory".

According to countries increases had to
fight as soon as sea and air forces.

Japan's powerful navy was
placed in the Dutch East India

which was a short trip to the Philippines.

Admiral Onishin Air Force was
to support the operation

as soon as the US attack at the beginning.

The fleet had to attack Americans

two battleships department and
the last tukialustensa fun.

Japanese air forces had suffered heavy
losses throughout the year 1944.

Onishilla had only 60 machines.

It was not enough at all
against the US fleet.

Machinery destructive power was maximized

so he devised a plan that reflected
the Bushido in its purest form.

The idea gave another naval
aviator, Admiral Masabumi Arima.

When the US Navy approached the Philippines

Arima led Air Command
itsemurharynnäkköön against it.

He flew the aircraft carrier USS
Franklin and damaged it badly.

Onishin thought this was the best way
to destroy puukantiset support vessels.

Required for the boarding in air
support came just aircraft carriers.

But the attacks had to be systematic.

Onishi asked the volunteers
to a special assault unit.

The unit was called the
Kamikaze, "wind gods"

According to Chapter 1200
mongolihyökkääjät destroyed the typhoon.

Onishin officers looked
at how men would react.

I called on volunteers to write
their names on a piece of paper.

I wondered what I would
do, if no one signed up.

That evening, one of the officer
brought me a stack of notes.

All but three men had
made themselves known.

The pilots felt it was an honor to
give the enemy a severe blow to

and to die for the emperor.

Fire Dew soon followed.

US made 20. 10. 1944 landings
Leyte Island in the Philippines.

Troops were quickly beachhead.

The Japanese launched an
immediate operation Shon.

But the US Navy submarines found...

And triggered the torpedoes.

Thus began the harsh attack
against Japanese ships.

Two carriers were immersed before
they reached their destination.

Onishi launched the first
kamikazehyökkäykset.

The machines did not have radar, and
the enemy found in bad weather.

Onishi tried again on 25 October.

Air increased five-directed
kamikazelentäjien Zero and four escort.

They found the disembarkation
supported aircraft carriers

and kamikazekoneet attacked.

Five to four aircraft broke through the
intense anti-aircraft defense and it worked.

Support The ship sank in the St.
Ló, and three other badly damaged.

Onishi elated ordered a new offensive.

It damaged two support vessels, but the
Japanese fleet was already retreating.

Three battle ships and support
ships for the past was embedded.

Kamikaze seemed to be the only way
to protect the Japanese homeland.

Kamikazeyksiköitä was founded more

but very few experienced martial
pilots could not afford to sacrifice.

Men were sought directly
from pilot training.

Kamikazelentäjänhän just had
to get to their target.

For him there was no need
to teach air combat skills.

The situation darkened all the time

and Bushido began to instill in
training more and more closely.

And the results came.

All the school's 150 fighter
pilots was convened.

Head of School said,

that they are looking for
men of special mission.

Entire education groups came forward.

They were taught the basics of attacking.

Most of the volunteers
knew what they wanted.

No living creature does not want to die.

But sometimes there is a moment

when you can not shirk its responsibility

and then to sacrifice their lives.

Spirit sacrifice of the motherland
and the people on behalf of the

was the highest possible honor.

I was not alone in that view.

All thought as well.

The suicide attacks did not come to
the Philippines only from the air.

The Japanese drew himself
grenades and mines

and attacked the tanks against knowing die.

Kamikazeaate spread.

The US got control of the main islands of
the Philippines at the beginning of 1945.

Next it was the turn of Iwo Jima

where part of the Japanese
kamikazekoneista was placed.

The island wanted to, not least because

that operate in the Mariana B
29's needed a saattohävittäjiä.

US Marines went ashore at
Iwo Jimassa 19.2. 1945.

The enemy was strong underground
defensive positions.

Marines were forced fierce battle.

Kamikaze attacked supporting
the landing ships.

They sank Bismarck Sean and
damaged a large Saratoga.

Air combat ships had been
fixed after the autumn.

More and more kamikazekone
fell before it hit the target.

Japanese tactics had the benefit
of the American people.

Pilots are focused on the
same goal, but each his own.

Thus the ship's guns had only one goal.

They did not have to fend off
multiple attackers simultaneously.

No kamikazelentäjä not surviving
to correct this mistake.

Iwo Jimasta fought a month.

Flamethrower was often the only weapon
that was able to empty the bunkers.

The Americans lost the Iwo
Jimassa nearly 30,000 men.

Of these, about 7,000 were felled.

20000 defender less than 1,000
survived and were captured.

But Iwo Jimakin paled
alongside the next target.

It was in Okinawa, the last stronghold
of the island ahead of Japan.

Okinawa was the last milestone
on the way to Japan.

It had been decided to
defend to the last man.

32. 110,000 man army are
clustered to the beach

but were going to tax the attackers
disguised their positions.

The Japanese have also
had a new kamikazeaseita

such as Okha or "cherry blossom",
which was controlled bomb.

It was a rocket motor and
a 1200-kilo warhead.

Okha bomb attached to the machine

and detached near the ball.

Okhan director could not turn back.

We thought all the time of death.

Sitting in Okha meant certain death.

We waited just our turn

and the wait seemed to last forever.

It seemed like he had
been sentenced to death

and waited only contact
with the electric chair.

The Japanese was Italian, like boats

which was run in the vihollislaivaa.

But the Japanese boat was
not supposed to jump off.

Okinawa ports had hidden
dozens of such boats.

Kaiten, or "the heavens quake"
was a sophisticated weapon.

It was built mini-submarine torpedoes.

There was room for the pilot and the
tower, which the boat was directed target.

The pilot was able in theory to leave
the boat before the collision.

It was very difficult.

It did not have any safety equipment.

It was like a barrel, which swirled
around until the head went dizzy.

The submarine took up close
to the ministry of goals

and it was removed under water.

The attacks against the invasion
troops began in March 1945.

Kamikaze made their first
successful offensive 19.3.

They hit the mother ship Waspiin
and the second time in Franklin.

Either the ship was badly
damaged, and 900 men were killed.

Okha bombs were tested for the
first time two days later.

The attack failed miserably.

Rocket weight hindered bombers badly.

The American fighters were
able to lose all of them.

The Americans landed on
Okinawa on the west bank 1.4.

They are met with resistance
and it went inland.

More than 350 kamikazekonetta
attacked three days later

against the landing force ships.

Attack ended in bloodshed.

Only the carrier Belleau
Wood was damaged slightly.

Japanese until the maximum
kamikazehyökkäys started 4.4.

Battleship Yamato was
fueled by just one way trip

because it had to drive to the beach
of Okinawa artillery battery.

It never reached their destination.
American planes sank it.

No bomb the boat could not get
close to the American ships.

Many boat anchorage was in
the hands of the attackers.

One of the Kaiten sunk
tanker USS MISSISSINEWA

but most of them were destroyed
emoveneidensä included.

Propaganda argued, however, that a number
of battleships had been destroyed.

The people were led to believe that the
devastating loss was turning into victory.

Kamikazehyökkäykset continued.

The American tactic was desperate.

We shot without full iron.

Machines always found the air
defense gaps where they had been.

Many planes hit just beside us.

The attacks continued
non-stop around the clock.

Kamikazeyksiköihin came despite
the loss still more volunteers.

Lieutenant Nakajima was
always our mission briefings.

He said: "If you do not
find your goal, turn back"

"So you will repeat a new
opportunity to die."

Kamikazehyökkäykseen output had
developed their own rituals.

Men were told the night before departure.

It gave them time to prepare
and write a farewell note.

Ensign Shigeyuki Suzuki wrote:

"It's a great day when we get to the
fight, it is the joy of the day"

"But at the same time of her death."

Isao Matsuo said to his parents:

"Congratulate me. I get to die.
This is the last day of my life."

"The fate of the Fatherland
settled in the Southern Ocean"

"I perish with the fragile
cherry blossoms by law."

Pilots find it on the last
day of a white headband.

It was a symbol of the samurai revenge.

They drank jäähyväismaljan rice
wine with your companions.

Then they went on their PCs.

Runway was on a slope high on the hill.

I heard them singing as they marched there.

I still remember the song...

Goodbye, little green Legs

Goodbye, my hometown

Goodbye, white cloths
waving hands

Cap We are a golden flower

Glitters brightly than riemumme

Oh great blue sky

Absorb the brave pilots

The Americans fought hard

to get through the fortified positions.

But unlike in the past

the Japanese began to
surrender voluntarily.

At least a portion realized
that the war was lost

and Bushido law was no longer relevant.

But still only a small minority
steered clear of a prisoner.

Most of the fighting to the death.

Multi Okinawan civilian believed
the Japanese propaganda

rather than waiting for any kind
of mercy from the Americans.

Multi threw himself off a cliff with
their children rather than surrendered.

Kamikazelentäjiä felt
sufficiently indefinitely.

The Americans finally broke the defense.

The island's commandant,
General Mitsuru Ushijima

committed suicide on 22 June.

Three months of harsh
fighting ended in his death.

During the Battle of Okinawa
died in 2394 kamikazelentäjää.

They sank 28 Allied ships
and damaged 368 aa.

"Gods wind" did not stop the enemy

whose next target was, in Japan.

It seemed after the Okinawan
experience scary thought.

The situation in Japan was
in July 1945 in despair.

US submarines were cut off by sea.

Japan to raw materials was little.

B 29 R, B 17's and
aircraft carriers machines

mercilessly bombed islands.

Japanese cities were
destroyed systematically.

The final loss seemed to be close.

Some government wanted
to start peace overtures

but the army refused to
even consider surrendering.

It was preparing to combat the invasion

and the use of suicide weapons.
Kamikazelentäjiä trained more.

Bomb Boats and Kaiten torpedoes
were prepared thousands.

The entire Japanese population was
brainwashed to fight to the last.

28 million civilians in armed

to support a total of 6,3 million
soldiers and military employees.

The Allies were watching
these preparations.

JAPAN (SUICIDE) assault UNITS

This map was assembled in the UK
Bletchley Park intelligence unit

a museum it is exhibited.

Some even suggested that the entire
population would make a suicide raid

so men, women and children.

The Allies began this knowledge
to design a landing.

It was due to start 1. 11.
1945 countries rise in Kyushu

Japan's southernmost island.

The second step would have been an
attack Tokyo Bay in March 1946.

The Allies remembered Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

The Japanese defended their
homeland an even more fiercely

so the attackers will
certainly suffer heavy losses

especially in the context
of kamikazehyökkäysten.

The slain, was estimated
to around one million.

But there was another option
that could end the war quickly.

New Mexico desert was detonated July 16.
Atomic bomb.

Allies call for Japan to
surrender unconditionally

or it would be destroyed utterly.

Japan rejected the claim

because it did not mention what would
be the fate of the Emperor Hirohito.

The Allies did not escape options.

They had to wear a terrible
destructive pommiaan.

The first was dropped on
Hiroshima on 6 August.

Japan is still bent

and three days later another
bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

The Japanese government was divided.
Civilians wanted peace

and the soldiers wanted
to continue the struggle.

Both parties finally decided
to ask the emperor's position.

Hirohito knew his people have
suffered enough already.

He avoided military coup notice to 14.8.
On the radio

that Japan agreed to surrender.

The surrender was sealed two weeks later,

General MacArthur's supervision
of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

Let us pray that the world
will now return to peace...

And that God will preserve it forever.

This ceremony has ended.

The reasons for the use of atomic bombs
has been debated since 1945 until now.

Japan attacks would have
meant enormous losses

and kamikaze would have
caused a large part of them.

Thousands of Bushido comply with the
requirements of young idealists

were unquestionably brave fighters.

But they were also victims
of suicidal idea.

It is said that they prolonged
the selfish hopeless war

in order to guarantee
themselves a place in heaven.

They do not fanaticism have seen
the consequences of their actions.

Japan is now a kamikaze museum.

Young Japanese are trying to understand
there's ancestral fathers motives.

Kamikazelentäjien families and the
few survivors of the volunteers

continue to worship their
lives uhranneiden memory.

Many others, this phase of Japanese
history should not be forgotten.

Brave kamikaze were not able to
prevent the inevitable loss.

Translated by: Kai Laine www.sdi media.com