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Kamikaze
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World War II Special Attack Units
During World War II, particularly from 1944 onwards, the term Kamikaze was revived and applied to suicide attack units of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) (and later the Army Air Force). These units were tasked with deliberately crashing aircraft laden with explosives into Allied warships, primarily aircraft carriers and battleships.
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