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The Americans

USS CABOT
(CVL-28)

USS ESSEX
(CV-9)

USS HANCOCK
(CV-19)

USS INTREPID
(CV-11)

 

The Japanese

The Kamikazes

A6M Zero

D4Y SUISEI

IJN Kumano

IJN Yasoshima

 

Narrated By

Marvin Scott

 

Historical Advisor

Michael Marmé, PH.D.
Fordham University,
New YORK, NY

 

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Multimedia Database

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Nao Otaka

Nao Otaka is from Japan. She has lived in the United States since she was twelve. Her grandmother survived the Nagasaki atomic bombing. The war still causes her concern, as she is very angry at Japan's wartime leaders.

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“not just dates that I see in a textbook,”

Nao Otaka in Day of the Kamikaze

“I learned in Japan that the government made really cheap airplanes with crappy engines so those kamikaze pilots could not come back to Japan, they would have to kill themselves.

“[The documentary] made me think about World War II more because personally I don’t like learning history and I don’t really like learning about war but by listening to those people, it wasn’t really learning, it was just, it was like understanding how they felt and what they did and, so for me it gave me another side of war, not just dates that I see in a textbook, but how lives were during the war.”