WingsOfDefeat-JapanKamikazePilots2007.mkv.nfo
WingsOfDefeat-JapanKamikazePilots2007.mkv
MKV mp4 640x424 29.97fps 150mb 53:29
AAC 32kbs 44.1KHz Stereo
English
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Low resolution original source? Content versus quality.
waldo.pepper post a.b.multimedia.aviation 7/10/2009
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Defeat
Wings of Defeat
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Wings of Defeat is a 2007 documentary feature film in which former Kamikaze pilots reveal they were not fanatics but were ordered to die by a desperate military. Wings of Defeat, broadcast on the PBS Independent Lens series in May 2009, was awarded the 2009 Erik Barnouw Award by the Organization of American Historians.
Wings of Defeat features interviews with four trained kamikaze pilots, including three who took off to attack the U.S. fleet off the coast of Okinawa in the spring of 1945 as well as exclusive interviews with surviving American Navy veterans of the USS Drexler, a destroyer sunk by two kamikaze pilots. The American veterans illustrate the enduring trauma of the suicide attacks. The film features commentary by John W. Dower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, American historian of modern Japan, and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, author of the books Kamikaze Diaries and Cherry Blossoms, Kamikaze and Nationalism.
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