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  Program: Independent Lens #1022
  Broadcast Date: May. 5, 2009
  

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What were the Japanese Kamikazes thinking just before crashing into their targets? When Risa Morimoto discovered that her beloved uncle trained as a Kamikaze pilot in his youth, she wondered the same thing. Through rare interviews with surviving Kamikaze pilots, Morimoto retraces their journeys from teenagers to doomed pilots and reveals a complex history of brutal training and ambivalent sacrifice.

In this clip, with the help of animation, two Japanese pilots recall a vicious dogfight with American planes.

• Asia
• documentaries
• Japan
• military
• pbs
• pilots
• war
• war
• World War II

Post Date: May 5, 2009