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let's finish our Kami Kazi story. Now America is making its way into the Philippines. I already explained that the Philippines are critically important to Japan. They have to have these resources. They took the Philippines on purpose, they needed to keep it. But again, they don't have an avy anymore, they don't have their top here fighter pilots anymore. They don't have them, and Japan decides it's time to begin recruitment of kama kazis, of men who will join the

Special Attack Squadrons. That's what they call them, Special Attack Force Special Attack Squadrons. I saw both that then call themselves kama kazis all the time. But they did refer to themselves as that. Why, well, we have to go clear back to last night and hour three. Remember the Mongols tried to invade and conquer Japan twice. A typhoon wiped out the Mongolian navy and its army which was sleeping on the navy twice. Japan called it a divine wind, a wind from God. Kami kazi is the word for it.

So when a horrible, huge, ugly, conquering force is coming to take Japan, the belief is a divine wind will rise up and save the country. And for hundreds of years, that took place in the twelve hundreds. For hundreds of years, that's what the Japanese were taught. That event has a reverence had and has a reference for the Japanese people. And so if you're going to sell suicide pilots and subs and other things like that, what do you sell? How do you sell it? It's not a hard thing

to sell at this point in time. Let's look at the Japanese perspective. I'm believing I'm not doing Americans of the bad guys thing We are looking at this from the Japanese perspective. What is happening to you in your homeland? American planes are flying overhead and they are bombing your cities and burning them to ash. Remember that we fire bombed Tokyo and we killed twice. We burned to death twice as many people in Tokyo as we killed in Hiroshima or Nagasaki with the Adam bombs. We just flayed

straight up dropped napalm. For lack of a more, I don't want to go into details of it. We burned the place down, and that was not unique. It wasn't just Tokyo, it wasn't Hiroshima, it wasn't Nagasaki. Almost every single major Japanese city was being put to the torch. Right now, now, you can say, why were they so afraid of us taking over? We weren't the Soviets, you know, we weren't going to treat people the way they were

treating people. How could you know that if you're a Japanese civilian and your whole family just burnt to death in Tokyo, how are you supposed to sell that family that the Americans are going to be lovely to you, which we turned out to be, but that Americans are going to be kind and lovely to you when you take over. You're not gonna believe that Noma years. You're going to believe the propaganda that the people who just burnt my whole family to death they will come do

terrible things to me. They will wipe out out my entire bloodline. We need a divine wind. Now combine that with well, there was a Japanese rear admiral. There were many guys like this, but there was a Japanese rear admiral who believed in suicidal attacks. This story's going to be, uh, not reliable, the one I'm about to say. And it's going to be not reliable because I think I read five different versions of the story. I'm going to give you the version of the story that was sold to

the Japanese people. This rear admiral believed in suicide attacks. He was sending his pilots off to go do attacks. They weren't going off to do suicide attacks, but they were going to do attacks. He chooses, remember he's a rear admiral, he's a big shot. He chooses to fly with them and in an effort to save the homeland. He crashes his plane intentionally into an American aircraft carrier, causing all kinds of death and destruction, almost sinking it.

That is the version that was sold to the American people, and that may be true. By the way, I got versions of this that said, he missed that. He didn't crash his plane into it all that he tried, but he dropped the bomb that hit. There are a bunch of different versions depending on what you read. That's not important. What is important is the Japanese people. This word spreads far and wide by the government across the country. Look at this hero, Look at this lion. Look at what

he did. Let's build a shrine to him. What a hero of Japan. He is the divine wind. Now, young men, do you want to do the same. Do you think a country like that would have volunteers? Of course they would. The volunteers start coming in, coming in and coming in. Now America's fleet gets into Layte Gulf of the Philippines. Don't worry about the details. They get to the Philippines and it is a massive fleet, a massive fleet. This is when MacArthur returned to the Philippines. We're taking back

this critically important part. We get a kamikaze, He flies right at the ship, crashes into the ship. At first, the Americans thought the exact same thing you would think. But what an idiot. Must have been an accident. Did he pass out in the cockpit and he did this accident? What a moron? They quickly realized that Japan had changed its tactics. Now let's stop for a second because we have to talk about a couple nerdy military details that

will matter. You know, in all warfare, no matter the age, World War II or ancient Sparta, that doesn't matter what the ages, there's always a development in tactics, in weaponry, and then a counter development. The enemy will do something, you figure out how to counter it. You will do something, the enemy will figure out how to counter it. Americans, they found out early on in the war that air power can take out a ship the way our ships

were currently configured. What do you do about that? We did a few different things about that, had a few different things, and so here are the things we had done, And this is going to be important when it comes to the kamikazies themselves. The first thing is, at first we did not have enough guns anti air guns on these navy ships. You need way more guns than you think you need. It's very, very difficult to shoot a plane out of the sky, even with advanced anti airguns

from a ship. So if you look at any World War two eraship, what ever it is, a battleship, a destroyer does it doesn't matter what it is, you will see what look like. You go look what up right now, as long as you're not driving, you will see what looked like almost big steel coffee cups along the outside of it, little half pods, if you will. Those are gun stations that we had been adding as a country

to our ships. We need more guns, more guns. Each one of those little steel coffee cups holds an anti air gun. That's where we're putting our anti air guns in. Okay, Now, we did other things. We even created things like proximity fuses. Remember I just said it's very hard to shoot a plane out of the sky. It gets a whole lot easier when you come up with uh, I'll just call it a bullet. When you come up with a bullet

that doesn't have to hit the plane. If it gets close to the plane, it will read that it's close to a plane and explode, damaging the plane. That is a huge advantage when you're trying to shoot these planes down. We had all these things that were done, and there were other things as well, and they were all done in an effort to stop Japanese planes from torpedoing our ships.

Remember they had torpedo planes from dive bombing our ships from and these things we had done had proven to be very very effective at stopping what the Japanese had previously been doing. The problem is those things are not nearly as effective against a plane that is trying to

crash into you. If he's trying to fly over you and drop a bomb on you and fly away, or he's trying to fly at you, load to the water and drop a torpe and fly away, that's one problem, and that's a problem you figured out how to deal with. What do you do when he has that bomb and he's not trying to fly away, he's trying to fly it into you. What do you do? What do they do? Well? In the Philippines, we are figuring all this out, and

we'll talk about that. Next is the Jesse Kelly Show on what is now completely a history show, apparently tonight talking about the Kamikaze of Japan. We'll get back to our regularly scheduled programming either tonight or tomorrow, maybe next week. I have no idea. If you want to email the show, you can Jesse at jesse kellyshow dot com. Japanese planes start intentionally crashing it, crashing into our ships when we're in the Philippines taking back the Philippines. At first we

are mortified. We stay mortified, and this is something we have to discuss here. Remember, wars, especially in the modern era, they really need public support to continue, or in the very least, they can't afford widespread public outrage. By this point in the war, American resolve isn't what it was right after Pearl Harbor. The Americans are tired of their boys dying, dying in Europe, dying in the Pacific. It's

a lot of death, a lot of suns lost. The American military apparatus is horrified by this new Japanese tactic, and so they start lying about it. Initially, they completely banned the press from talking about it, and they started lying about it. That's how horrified they were by it. Now, let's fast forward past that. How do you handle this? It becomes a problem. The admirals are screaming at the

high command. Someone better come up with the plan, because again, you can't stop the things with anti air for the most part. And it's just a question of momentum. Even if he's diving right at you, even if you kill the pilot, even if you shoot the plane to bits, momentum says the plane is still going to end up where it was aimed at before. You can't blow it up. We don't have missiles. That doesn't work that way. What

do you do? We come up with a concept. The concept was essentially the entire anti Kamakazi concept was known as the Big Blue blanket. But here's what the initial concept was. If we can't stop them hitting the ships, let's stop them on the ground. We have incredible pilots. We having a lot of planes, incredible planes. Let's send them out constantly to look out to take out any Japanese planes they find that are concentrated on the ground.

When you see a Japanese airfield, assume those are all about to be kama kazi's and you take them out on the ground. It was not that effective, somewhat effective, but not that effective. Why Japanese are not stupid either. Always easy to think of your enemy as stupid. The Japanese knew what we were going to do. We'd been doing this kind of thing. They had built legions of fake planes and left them out on the runway, and they hid the real planes in the jungle, again, frustrating

our efforts. Measures countermeasures, measures, countermeasures, What do you do? As far as the techniques the planes used, I don't know which one would be more difficult to deal with. Remember, the Japanese knew, they were well aware that we had radar. Radar was a huge problem for them. We could detect planes coming in. They used a few different techniques. The first one was super low. You fly your plane essentially. I've seen there's video of this. You can go look

at these kamic cazes. It looks like the plane is ten feet above the ocean. You're that low, you're off radar. They get a plane flying in that low, oftentimes you can't see him until it's way too late and the radar didn't pick him up, and soon he's slamming his plane into the side of your aircraft carrier and killing three hundred sailors, or they would fly super high. The exact opposite. Cloud cover became a nightmare because the Japanese

would stay in the clouds. They would stay in the clouds, and maybe you're sitting there wondering, well, what about the radar. Didn't the radar pick them up? Again? Japanese not stupid radar. Radar then wasn't what radar is now. I know that's kind of an obvious point. But now radar on a ship, it'll tell you everything about that plane you're looking at, Everything about that plane you're looking at, at least you would know everything about it. Back then, it's just a blip.

It's just a blip. The Japanese they would wait until our planes were coming back from patrol. It was known as cap combat Air patrol, but that's not important, and they would hop in behind it. They would fly right behind our combat air patrol. Radar is looking at it. In radar's mind, that's just our boys coming back from combat air patrol. They don't know there are Japanese kama kazis in there. They think our guys are coming back soon. Our ships are being pummeled. Now we win the Philippines.

We move on, We move on, We fight Ewojima. In ewo Jima. We do get some a few Kamakazis, but not many, really, not many at all. We think we have stopped this problem. You know, when you get pounded like we did in the Philippines with these things, and then you fight another major war for Ewojima. We needed that Ewojima airfield and you don't get anything near that volume, you think, well, our countermeasure has clearly worked. Clearly the big blue blanket worked. We are good to go. We

take Ewojima, we take the airfield. Then we move to the worst moment in US Navy history, far worse than Pearl Harbor was, and most people don't even know about it. It was the Battle of Okinawa. And I will try to finish this story next. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful Tuesday, trying to finish up our our Kama Kazi history. Actually I'm not even trying. I'm having myself a good time. So the Japanese have tested kama Kazi's in the Philippines and had some success. Then

we took Ewojima. Now I need to explain once again the B twenty nine super Fortress in what it was doing to mainland Pan already. Because this really drives home the fear they had had. The B twenty nine super Fortress was our bomber, our new bomber. I personally, I am a huge fan of the B seventeen Flying Fortress. You've seen those the movie Memphis Bell, You've seen those BE seventeen Flying Fortresses. It's my favorite plane. Ever, I admit that the B twenty nine super Fortress is better

than it in every way. It's bigger, faster, more range, in every possible way. It was a super plane. It also flew at thirty thousand feet. The Japanese over cities like Tokyo. They did not have an anti air gun or a fighter plane that could reach thirty thousand feet. Not only were these super bombers laying waste to Japanese cities, the Japanese were completely helpless to stop them. Picture what that feels like. You don't have a weapon to stop

the super bomber from wiping you out. And this is what they think is coming for every inch of Japan. That is truly Godzilla. It's what they think is coming. It's already arriving. Then America lands the largest fleet man ever created outside of Okinawa. The Marines, the Armies, they go on to fight Okinawa. We're not going to go into that's a whole other story. Horrible fighting Okinawa. The Japanese had like one hundred thousand troops. There was crazy, bloody, awful.

We have this huge fleet outside of Okinawa. They decide this is their moment to send the divine wind because if America takes Okinawa, they know the B twenty nine's will simply rain hell all over Japan and they are powerless to stop it. So they send waves and waves. We have not found in appropriate countermeasure yet. So I touched on this a couple of nights ago, maybe last night. Came up with a new concept. This whole flying around looking for the planes on the ground thing obviously was

not working. They were hiding their planes. It wasn't working. We came up with picket stations. They were called and these men. You probably have never heard of these men unless you're a World War two buff They deserve so much of your respect. We had fifteen picket stations draw a big circle, a big ring around Okinawa and mark fifteen different stations. What they were was a few smaller ships. We're not talking big battleships and aircraft carriers. We didn't

want to waste our most prize ships on this. We would send a few ships out so there radar could pick up the Japanese planes coming from mainland Japan early enough that we could send our planes up and take out the Japanese kamikaze before they hit our ships. Because because that is really the only super effective way to do it. The Japanese actually had a suicide rocket plane. It's amazing. It was called the Oka. It was known

as the Oka. It didn't end up doing a ton of damage because they had to attach it to the bottom of a Japanese bomber and it couldn't take off her land. Chris, the Oka could not take off her land. They had to attach it to the bottom of the bomber. The bomber would have to fly towards the American fleet. Then the pilot would crawl down get in the Oka. It was a suicide bomb essentially, and it was rocket propelled. It was going six hundred miles an hour. He would

break off the Betty break off of the bomber. Sorry, was called a betty. Break off the Japanese bomber and zoom towards our ships. Your anti air has no chance of stopping that none. But we figured out quickly it's actually not a big deal. The Oka might be fast, but the Betty ain't. Let's go shoot the Betty out of the sky before the OCA ever takes off. So we figured out, you have to catch the Kama Kazis before they get to your ship. They are reigning hell

on the United States Navy outside of Okinawa. Did you know? Did you know that we lost roughly twenty six twenty seven hundred Americans live lofts in Afghanistan? Did you know that? Did you know we lost five thousand American sailors outside of Okinawa because of Kama Kazi's Double the deadliest battle by far in US Navy history. It was not one Kama Kazi here or one Kama Kazi there. They would come in waves, they would come alone, they would come at night, they would come during the day, and they

were killing us. The thought was one plane, one ship, That's what the Japanese were selling. And so we sent these brave men out on picket stations. But remember, put yourself in the mind of a seventeen year old young Japanese man, you're scared out of your mind. Maybe you volunteered, maybe you were voluntold. But you know it's a one way trip. Now I need to pausit real quick. Why is it a one way trip? Oh? They use words like shame. Oh, your family will be shamed. You know

what that looks like in Japan. Most of these men came from rural areas, small Japanese villages where everyone works together, everyone knows each other, everyone supports each other. If word got back that your son chicken down, your son didn't give his life to the emperor, the entire family would possibly starve to death. The entire family would possibly be jumped by the other villagers and beaten to a pulp. That is how big of a deal the shame was

back home. So now you're a seventeen year old young Japanese pilot, you understand this is a one way trip. There's nothing you can do about that. You obviously you'd like to take out an aircraft carrier, but you're gonna take out the first American ship. You see, You're gonna be tempted to take out the first American ship, you see, especially because remember about one in ten of these pilots actually made it to their destination, made it to the ship.

We are shooting down a bunch. You know, your odds aren't great. So you come across a picket station, a few little dinky destroyers down there. Screw this carrier stuff. I'm going into a dive and I'm getting I'm getting mine right now. Our men died in droves, in these pickets and droves. That's a medal of honor citation. I read McCool from yesterday last night, hour two. That's where he earned his Medal of honor. Men dying on his ship, men burning. They were on a picket station and a

kami kazi came screaming in and took him out. I'm gonna wrap this thing up here. I think that's probably about as much about kamakzes as you need to learn from me. After Okinawa, of course, we dropped the atom bombs and Japan ends up surrendering, and you understand all that. But I want to repeat what I told you earlier. They had legions of these prepped and ready to go for our invasion of Japan. We discovered things after we

occupied Japan that blew us away. And while the Marines in the Army they were dying on Okinawa, the brave men in the United States Navy, they would wake up and just look at the sky and just wait, and they knew today might be the day you burn to death. You're scalded to death. You drown because the Kamakazies would come screaming in and they'd smash into the elevator on the aircraft carrier. So now it's all the fuel and bombs, or they'd smash into essentially the command structure. Now your

commander is blown up. Now you're five thousand sailors lost in Okinawa. Now something to marinate on. As we brought up last night, is that suicide? That? Yeah? But do you understand them a little bit more now than you did before. I don't know that I've ever researched a history topic that interested me and had my mind change as much as it changed when I was reading about these young men, young men who are still celebrated in

Japanese museums to this day. You can show up, you can read their names, you can read their letters home foolhardy, evil by the government no question about it. But young men giving their lives to try to save their country from total destruction. That's the story of the Kamikaze. Let's do a couple of political things before we check out it. Here, shall we? It is The Jesse Kelly Show. Final segment of The Jesse Kelly Show, and what has been a

wonderful Tuesday. We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow. I hope you enjoyed it. I certainly did. Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com as the email address. If you missed any part of that history or the rest of the show from tonight last night, go download the podcast. iHeart Spotify iTunes. One final quick word on the Kamikaze that I did not know something I thought was interesting

These planes when they crashed into the ships. Obviously a lot of fire and bombs and things like that, but if the plane remained on the ship, the Japanese plane, oftentimes the pilot was relatively intact. I mean, I'm sure he doesn't look like he's ready for prom but he's

relatively intact. Occasionally, much more than once, the American sailors the Navy would come up with or find a Japanese flag, and they would pull him out of that ship and they would bury that young man with honors at sea, the same way they would their They killed so many, and though we were on they were hated. The Japanese were hated by our troops in World War Two, there's

no question about it. But the men who were dying and whose friends were dying oftentimes thought of these young fanatics, yes, as fanatics and crazy, but as warriors doing what they could for their country. That's what the men felt at the time, some of them. Anyway, nothing's universal, you know, it is universal communists living a life of luxury while making you poor and miserable. That's Zorn Mamdani guy, that Kami who's running to be mayor of New York City.

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