I have an excellent book on the Kamikaze's written by a pilot who volunteered as a kamikaze, then was sidetracked into administrative duties and never went on a mission.
We all looked at the kamikazes as hard core, dedicated fanatics. According to this book, that was not necessarily the case. Many were young men who volunteered out of idealism and then had second thoughts but could not back out. Many realized the war was lost before they went on a mission, and adopted the attitude of why should they die for a lost cause. They were on an unbelievable emotional roller coaster. They'd to through an hour long pre-mission ceremony to get psyched up to it, and then the mission would be scrubbed for bad weather. The result was a bunch of drunks and insubordinates, but who would discipline them under the circumstances? One, flying a Zero and out of pure frustration, strafed and shot up his own squadron area as a parting gesture as he left on a mission.
Many secretly questioned the sanity of the high ranking officers who dreamed up and promoted the idea of kamikazes, but in the Japanese hierarchy questioning a superior officer was synonymous with a death sentence.
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