Japanese kamikaze aircraft, smoking from antiaircraft hits and veering slightly to left moments before slamming into the USS Essex on November 25, 1944.

Suicide plane

Japanese pilots of the 721st Naval Air Corps ("Gods of Thunder") sitting in close proximity to a G4M2e (Allied code name "Betty") bomber, equipped with a suspended MXY7 "Ohka" rocket-propelled human-guided kamikaze attack aircraft ("Exploding cherry blossom"), ready for a mission.

Ready for a suicidal sortie

A unit of the Japanese army is moving through a street in a village of occupied Malaysia.