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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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World War II
Multimedia Database

Nine Sisters

 

Peter Zarcone

Peter Zarcone was struck by how real World War II became, hearing about it from veterans, as opposed to the textbooks he reads in history class.

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“books just tell you numbers,”

Peter Zarcone in Day of the Kamikaze

“When you’re on the USS Intrepid, it’s a similar ship so you get the feeling, if you were on that ship you would have to run up to the deck and start aiming your guns and firing at planes…he said that and I just immediately felt that I was there and I just thought of all my friends being the gunners on that ship. And then suddenly the plane crashing into it, the kamikaze…it hurt me, but at the same time I felt like what really happened there.

“To get to actually talk to someone from the war and to get their view on it and to hear what they have to say is more important than anything because they were in it. And not some textbook. I mean textbooks, you hear 50,000 men die in one battle. It’s like okay, that’s data. But then when you hear it from these men and they’re describing it, it’s difficult and it brings it to life. I mean it doesn’t hide everything. I mean books just tell you numbers. I mean what happened here, what happened there, whatever. But listening to people’s stories really gets you, like it gets to you. I mean you think about it more. You learn from it more.”