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Kamikazes were the result of Japan "running out of TRAINED pilots", and didn't enter the war until about 1944 at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. It takes a YEAR or MORE to train a good combat pilot...and the Battle of Midway took the cream of the crop away from the Imperial Navy in 1942. Japan underestimated the need for a steady stream of combat pilots, not realizing that if a sudden catastrophe should kill off their pilots, as happened at "Midway", they would have to replace them quickly. Of all the fighting men in WW2, the airplane pilots required the most training.

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