Author: Yutaka Yokota
The Kaiten Weapon
Ballantine Books
1962
Format: PDF
Pages: 268
Language: English
Size: 39 MB
Japan's suicide torpedo pilots-underwater counterpart of the deadly and fanatic Kamikaze..In this book Yutaka Yokota who miraculously survived the war, tells how he learned to operate his suicide torpedo and describes the farewell ceremony in which a man is dedicated to death. Most important, he succeeds in conveying to readers an understanding of men like himself who deliberately accepted annihilation in the hope of defeating in World War II.