SUICIDE PILOTS IN SHORT SUPPLY
TOKIO, September 7,
The Japanese suicide bombing attacks against American shipping slackened during the closing stages of the war due to Japan's inability to procure volunteers, according to an American-educated ■ seaplane pilot, Hagime Onishi, who greeted American marines landing at the seaplane base. He said that it became necessary to draft men and boys, of whom only a small percentage passed the final tests because of the danger involved in the training. Practice flights were made v/ith dummy bombs, but the planes could not land at less than 150 miles an hour, with the result that scores of the draftees were killed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 60, 8 September 1945, Page 7
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