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Operation Kikusui | |||||||
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Part of the Battle of Okinawa, Pacific theater, World War II | |||||||
![]() US Navy aircraft carrier Enterprise struck by kamikaze aircraft | |||||||
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Units involved | |||||||
British Pacific Fleet |
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Strength | |||||||
1,827 kamikaze aircraft (often accompanied by other aircraft) | |||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
4,907 sailors killed 4,824 sailors wounded[1] 218 ships damaged 36 ships (destroyers and smaller) sunk 763 carrier aircraft | ~3,800 kamikaze pilots killed throughout the war[2] |
Operation Kikusui (菊水作戦, Kikusui sakusen) was a series of suicidal air attacks by Imperial Japanese forces during the Battle of Okinawa against Allied fleets in the waters around Okinawa, as part of Operation Ten-Go. The name of the operation, "Kikusui" (Japanese: 菊水, "Chrysanthemum Water"), comes from the hata-jirushi of the samurai Kusunoki Masashige.
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