> we can see that the kaiten was a necessary weapon I'm afraid I don't think so. Lots of pathos, little boom. Learn from the Americans. Much more boom in a nuke, and much less pathos. For the ones using it anyhow.
> we can see that the kaiten was a necessary weapon I'm afraid I don't think so. Lots of pathos, little boom. Learn from the Americans. Much more boom in a nuke, and much less pathos. For the ones using it anyhow.
No. There was nothing "necessary" about this. Japan had lost the war by 1945. There was no torpedoing their way out of that. The Kaiten is emblematic of many of the things wrong with fascism; belief in drama over practicality, obsession with death, contempt for the individual. All the Kaiten did was add more corpses to the colossal heap that was World War II.
The men who piloted the Kaiten were people. We should remember their names and who they were. But we should be honest about their deaths. There was nothing heroic about it, just as there was nothing heroic about the death of Kamikaze pilots or the deaths of Yamato's crew. Their lives were thrown away by delusional leaders who would do anything to avoid admitting defeat.
This is a textbook case of a bad translation being much worse than no translation at all.
A special weapon of unevitable death must not be used.58 and KaitenKaiten Special Strike Force, First Team "Kikusui Fleet"
And from the Second Team "Kongou Fleet", the I-58, who joined the war and fought on along sides the kaitens until the end, and the kaiten is the weapon to which I can hardly talk about her story without referring.First of all, in the making of Goya's lines I did read books and imagine how I would feel if I was a member of the submarine crew. Because of that, I appreciate your understanding that this may not how the crew actually thought precisely.
