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Japan's 1945 kamikaze pilots: a controversial sacrifice of 3,800 youths

Over 3,800 Japanese pilots, averaging 21 years old, crashed into American ships in 1945.

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These suicide attacks, ordered by the imperial army, aimed to slow the Allied advance in the Pacific.

Their legacy still divides Japan today between heroism and senseless tragedy.

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Ce sujet éclaire un épisode marquant de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, souvent méconnu en Occident, et interroge la mémoire collective japonaise sur la guerre et ses sacrifices.

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