Wings of Defeat

Director Risa Morimoto returns to her familys ancestral home in Osaka, Japan, to film this eye-opening, informative, riveting documentary filled with gripping archival newsreel footage, unforgettable still photographs, and emotionally charged and heartbreaking interviews with surviving kamikaze-trained pilots (such as Takehiko Ena, Shigeyoshi Hamazono, Takeo Ueshima, and Kazuo Nakajima), whose less fortunate fellow pilots succeeded in sinking 40 American naval vessels during more 4,000 Tokkotai attacks, and lucky surviving American soldiers (such as Duke Payne, Joseph Haas, Fred Mitchell, Henry Christensen, and Eugene Brick) who served on the destroyed USS Drexler.
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