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Wings of Defeat - 4/22/2009 1:28:17 PM

floydg

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This is a documentary about the Kamikaze (Tokkotai).

My wife saw it advertised a while back and when she found it available online, she picked it up. We saw it last night and it was pretty good. It features interviews with Kamikaze "survivors" from both sides -- Americans from a DD which was sunk (forgot the name) and several Tokkotai members who survived (one was even a veteran from Rabaul who was amazed that he was being told to crash his plane when all of his training and experience was to live to fight another day). This film does a good job of "de-demonizing" the Kamikaze.

An overview is here: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/wingsofdefeat/

It's supposed to be on PBS starting Tuesday, May 5.

Floyd