Japanese kamikaze
Japanese Kamikaze were suicide bombers that when in an air battle and the plane ran out of bullets or bombs they would commit suicide by diving into another plane a building or naval boats. The first kamikaze attack happened in 1944 in the battle of leyte gulf where a pilot dove into the USS st. Lo which sunk and killed 30 sailors. In WW2 around 3,870 kamikaze pilots died.
Aircraft carriersthe Yorktown-class and the Essex-class of carriers played the most important role in the reconquest of the Pacific islands and in the destruction of the Imperial Japanese Navy due to its power projection. Each carrier had on board up to 90 aircraft that provided fire support to ground troops and wiped out the Japanese fighters and dive-bombers.
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Atomic BombThe atomic bomb was a weapon used by the united states on Hiroshima and nagasaki. No weapon has ever delivered such a terrifying impact in the world than the atomic bomb. The bomb killed around 80,000 people just in hiroshima. Luckily Hiroshima and nagasaki were the only places that have been hit in history.
FlamethrowerThe most effective weapon used in the american campaign of island hopping. No weapon was more destructive to the enemy's cover in what most islands were thick forest and jungles.
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