Memoirs of a Kamikaze Audiobook Libro.fm

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Independent Publisher Book Award IPPY Winner

Now Available on Audio An incredible untold story of survival and acceptance that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history

This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi whoin 1943 when he was just 16 yearsoldjoined the Imperial Japanese Navy to become a pilot A year later he was unknowingly assigned to the Kamikaze Special Attack Corpsa group of airmen whose mission was to sacrifice their lives by crashing planes into enemy ships Their call sign was ten dead zero alive

As you listen to Memoirs of a Kamikaze you will experience the hardships of fighter pilot trainingdipping and diving and watching as other trainees crash into nearby mountainsides you will witness the psychological trauma of coming to terms with death before each mission and breathe a sigh of relief with Odachi when his last mission is cut short by Japans eventual surrender You will feel the anger at a government and society that swept so much of the sacrifice under the rug in its desperation to rebuild

Odachis innate samurai spirit carried him through childhood WWII and his eventual life as a kendo instructor police officer and detective His attention to detail unwavering selfdiscipline and impenetrably strong mind were often the difference between life and death Odachi who is now well into his nineties kept his Kamikaze past a secret for most of his life Seven decades later he agreed to sit for nearly seventy hours of interviews with the authors of this bookwho know Odachi personally He felt it was his responsibility to finally reveal the truth about the Kamikaze pilots that they were unsuspecting teenagers and young men asked to do the bidding of superior officers who were never held to account

This book offers a new perspective on these infamous suicide pilots It is not a chronicle of war nor is it a collection of research papers compiled by scholars It is a transcript of Odachis words