Memoirs of a kamikaze : a World War II pilot's inspiring story of survival, honor and reconciliation
(2020)
By:
Odachi, Kazuo
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/ODACHI,K
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Tokyo ; Rutland, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, [2020]
DESCRIPTION
191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9784805315750, 480531575X, 9784805315750
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Translated from the Japanese
"An incredible, untold story of survival and acceptance that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history. This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who--in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old--joined the Imperial Japanese Navy to become a pilot. A year later, he was unknowingly assigned to the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps--a group of airmen whose mission was to sacrifice their lives by crashing planes into enemy ships. Their callsign was "ten dead, zero alive""--