Question

As a result of Japan’s increasing use of suicide attacks in 1945, Allied leaders began

Answer 1

Kamikaze were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who conducted suicide attacks against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II. It was

designed to destroy allied warships .

In 1945, U.S. Navy aviator Commander John Thach, engineered a defensive strategy against kamikazes to prove Allied air supremac well away from the carrier force. This recommended combat air patrols (CAP) that were larger and operated further from the carriers than before, a line of picket destroyers and destroyer escorts few kms from the main body of the fleet to provide earlier radar interception and improved coordination between fighter direction officers on carriers. This plan included for around-the-clock fighter patrols over Allied fleets and lastly intensive fighter sweeps over Japanese airfields, and bombing of Japanese runways, using delayed-action bombs to make repairs more difficult.

Late in 1944, the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) used the good high-altitude performance of its Supermarine Seafires on combat air patrol duties.

Allied pilots were well experienced, better trained with superior aircraft, making the poorly trained kamikaze pilots easy target. Allied pilots destroyied enemy aircraft before they struck ships. Their gunners had begun to develop techniques to negate kamikaze attacks.

Light rapid fire anti-aircraft weapons and heavy anti-aircraft guns which specially had the punch to blow kamikazes out of the air, which was preferable since even a heavily damaged kamikaze could complete its mission

Answer 2

Answer:

Kamikaze (神風, [kamiꜜkaze]; "divine wind" or "spirit wind"), officially Tokubetsu Kōgekitai (特別攻撃隊, "Special Attack Unit"), were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who initiated suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than possible with conventional air attacks. About 3,800 kamikaze pilots died during the war, and more than 7,000 naval personnel were killed by kamikaze attacks.[2]

Kamikaze aircraft were essentially pilot-guided explosive missiles, purpose-built or converted from conventional aircraft. Pilots would attempt to crash their aircraft into enemy ships in what was called a "body attack" (tai-atari) in planes laden with some combination of explosives, bombs, and torpedoes.