A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M kamikaze suicide plane hits the Navy escort carrier USS Suwannee (CVE-27) on 25 October 1944. Note the Grumman F6F Hellcat completing pullout after chasing the kamikaze plane. When Japan was facing defeat in late 1944 it chose to destroy US ships with suicide bombings, known as attacks were a potent physical and psychological weapon and sunk a total of 47 ships at a cost of more than 3000 pilots and planes. By late 1944 the US Navy was large enough that the losses were insignificant and they did not alter the course of the war.

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