Kamikaze Suicide Bomber (1945)

Full title reads: “KAMIKAZE (SUICIDE BOMBER)“. General view of the Pacific Fleet at sea. American planes landing on an aircraft carrier - some crash land. Antiaircraft tracer shells firing up at a Japanese planes. Japanese plane crashing into sea and bursting into flame. Naval antiaircraft guns firing. Intertitle: “INSIDE JAPAN - KAMIKAZE“ Huge Japanese crowds. Japanese Emperor Hirohito. Good close shots of Japanese children. Japanese pilots on parade. Japanese woman praying on her knees. Close up shot of Geisha girls drinking from cups. Close up shot of Japanese newspaper with kamikaze as national heroes. Various shots of the pilots, some good close up shots, crying ’Banzai’ while being sworn in. Sequence of diagrams explaining on what principles suicide bombers operate - small planes with no parachutes, pilots are locked up in cockpit and without landing gear. Plane is filled with explosive and detonates at contact with other object. Japanese suicide plane - the Baka Bomb. Closer shot of J
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