KAMA KAZI
32 YEAR OLD PILOT: "WE KAMA KAZI ARE NOTHING BUT ROBOTS. IF WE HAD LISTENED TO THOSE JAPANESE WHO REALLY LOVED THEIR COUNTRY, WE WOULD NOT NOW BE FIGHTING WITH THIS DISASTER. I KNOW MY DEATH CAN NO LONGER SERVE ANY PURPOSE."
DESPITE THE KAMA KAZI HITTING OVER 400 SHIPS AND KILLING MORE THAN 5,000 ALLIED SAILORS, THE ALLIED ADVANCE TOWARDS JAPAN CONTINUES.
21 YEAR OLD AROO-ARAKI "THERE IS LIFE BUT THE HAPPY DREAM IS OVER. TOMORROW I WILL DIVE MY PLANE INTO AN ENEMY SHIP. I WILL CROSS THE RIVER INTO THE OTHER WORLD, TAKING SOME YANKEES WITH ME. WHEN I THINK OF THE FUTURE IT TEARS MY HEART OUT."
BY THE END OF THE WAR MORE THAN 4,000 KAMA KAZIS WILL HAVE FLOWN TO THEIR DEATH.
1945 - OKINAWA
JAPAN'S EMPIRE WHICH ONCE EXTENDED OVER VAST AREAS OF THE PACIFIC AND ASIA, IS NOW SHRINKING FAST.
ON THE FIRST OF APRIL 1945 THE ISLAND OF OKINAWA IS BOMBARDED BY THE AMERICANS. IT IS THE FIRST PIECE OF JAPANESE SOIL TO BE ATTACKED. TO DEFEND THE ISLAND THE JAPANESE HIGH-COMMAND HAS DEVELOPED ANOTHER TACTIC. ITS FORCE HAS MOVED INLAND, HIDDEN AWAY IN CAVES AND BUNKERS. SENIOR STAFF OFFICER OF THE 32ND ARMY: "AS THEIR TROOPS LAND WITH ALMOST NO RESISTANCE, WHAT MUST THE ENEMY COMMANDER BE THINKING? I AM UNABLE TO SUPPRESS AN IRONIC CHUCKLE. IT IS AMUSING TO WATCH AN AMERICAN ARMY SO DESPERATELY ATTACKING AN UNDEFENDED COAST. LIKE A BLIND MAN WHO HAS LOST HIS CANE."
OKINAWA IS LESS THAN 400 MILES TO THE MAIN JAPANESE ISLANDS AND HOME TO ALMOST 400,000 HUNDRED CIVILIANS.
14 YEAR OLD JUKO ESSA: "WHEN WE HEARD THE AMERICANS HAD LANDED NEAR BY, ALL 8 OF US HURRIED FOR THE FOREST, THEN A PLANE STREAKING THROUGH THE SKY. WHEN WE LOOKED BACK THE WHOLE PLACE WAS IN FLAMES. WE COULD HEAR PEOPLE CRYING OUT FOR HELP. BUT GRADUALLY THE VOICES DISAPPEARED, THAT'S WHEN WE KNEW THEY WERE DEAD."
THE HIGH-COMMAND IN TOKYO IS DESPERATE TO PREVENT AN INVASION OF THE MAINLAND. THEY ARE PREPARED TO SACRIFICE OKINAWA, TO SHOW THE AMERICANS HOW BLOODY THIS COULD BE.
FROM HIS COMMAND POST ON MOUNT SHURI COMMANDER UHARA OBSERVERS THE ADVANCING AMERICANS: "FOR MONTHS NOW WE HAVE BEEN BUILDING OUR STRONGEST FORTIFICATIONS IN THE HILLS TO THE SOUTH. HERE WE WILL LURE THE AMERICAN FORCES AND DEFEAT THEM."
AFTER DAYS OF MARCHING, SUDDENLY THE AMERICANS RUN HEADLONG INTO THE MAIN JAPANESE FORCE.
SHURI: "THE EMPEROR DECLARED THIS BATTLE WOULD DECIDE OUR NATION'S FUTURE. THEN CAME THE GLORIOUS NEWS THAT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WAS DEAD. THE STAFF OFFICERS WERE ECSTATIC. WE ARE CONVINCED THAT WE SHALL NOW WIN THE WAR."
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TO BE CONTINUED
ONCE MORE YOU SEE THE DEMONIC DECEPTION PLAYING ITSELF OUT IN THE MINDS OF THE JAPANESE SOLDIERS. THE CLEAR ODDS ARE THAT JAPAN IS NOW LOOSING THE WAR, OUT GUNED BY A MUCH MORE POWERFUL AMERICAN MILITARY WAR MACHINE; YET SO DECEIVED ARE THE JAPANESE IN THEIR BELIEF OF THEIR GODS AND THE HOLY WAR THEY ARE CONDUCTING AGAINST THEIR ENEMY, IT WILL TAKE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES THAT WILL YET DIE, BEFORE JAPAN WILL SURRENDER. THEY ARE ALSO DECEIVED BY THE VAIN MIND-SET THAT SINCE THEIR FOUNDING SOME 2,600 YEARS AGO, THEY HAVE NEVER LOST A WAR.
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