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Kamikaze: noun - in Japanese tradition, this is the
gale that destroyed the fleet of the invading Mongols in 1281; during the
Second World War, it came to represent both the crewman of a Japanese aircraft and
the plane itself. Usually loaded with explosives, these made deliberate
suicidal attacks, crashing into enemy targets; a suicide pilot or plane; in surfing
- a wipeout taken deliberately.
'I tell you, I could see
the mad eyes of that Kamikaze pilot as he aimed his fighter at the bridge of
our destroyer. It was only Johnnie's accurate anti-aircraft fire that saved us
and blew the bugger up before he could crash into us.'
5 October 1936 And 200 men
set out from Jarrow in the north east of England to march to London and bring
the poverty of their region to the attention of the politicians in Whitehall.
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