Kamikaze Timeline of Events

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Kamikaze

The were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy as many warships as possible....

Timeline of Events

1944

10.21.1944

The first kamikaze attack: A Japanese plane carrying a convert 200 bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.

1945

2.21.1945

World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga.

3.11.1945

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.

5.11.1945

World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill, is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of her crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.

2009

2.20.2009

Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en-route to the national airforce headquarters were shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.