European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                This got to and people decided its mooing could be heard by it 4 if nyx 1 an interview with a Jap suicide flier who missed his heros end reveals that the dope on How the Kamikaze corps lived seems to have been just official by Robert Mac Iuan yank staff correspondent Kamikaze Pilot sat with his Mouth open and his eyes wide in bewilderment he tossed off a shot of hot Sake and rubbed his where did you get All that stuff he Geisha and banquets and big Ive been missing out on but this is the first i Ever heard of anything like the boys name is Norio he is 23 years old and much better looking than the aver age with a Weissmuller even Teeth and clean he lives with his parents at within commuting Dis Tance of and it is difficult to picture him setting out on a suicide determined to splatter himself and his plane on a transport packed with american this is exactly what he tried to to his Story none of the preliminary fanfare that had been advertised by the japanese these for some Oriental about the time of the Leyte inva Sion began filling the airwaves with dazzling stories about a new special attack corps called divine according to the japanese the budding Kamikaze Pilot was Given a provided with enough women to make up for the years he indubitably was going to Given a Public funeral that would satisfy the most finicky of his ancestors and then dressed in magnificent ceremonial Robes for the thousands the rest was not so but the japanese described it As one glorious with the Pilot sacrificing his life in a purifying plane that would sink an enemy ship and save the if Okamoto Story is True of All just what impelled the japanese to put out the propaganda which were Given general credence in Japan and the rest of the especially among american troops who had to Deal with this new and outlandish baffle even the experts in Oriental one possible explanation is that the stories would modify bereaved Jap another is that somehow this buildup would scare the soft a third and also Likely theory credits simple Okamoto Story took All the divine of the kamikazes even the in a japanese was he had worked for radio Tokyo while he a lot of the propaganda stories were he had believed the Kamikaze the boys parents and a japanese professor listened it is Likely they were hearing the Story for the first Here is what really least to me and to All the kamikazes i knew or Ever heard Okamoto Early one just before the Okinawa we got our or Ders to crash dive into some american transports that had just been sighted off the eight of us took off at the same they gave me an old seaplane with a top Speed of 120 x v strapped a 250kilo bomb in the single gave me just enough Gas to get me and off we they did give us a Little but it was nothing unusual at just before we took off the group commander gave us All a parting drink of a wished us he stood at a Little table with a White cloth on it and toasted i was the last Man to get the and when it came my turn to shake hands with the commander i stuck the bottle in my i forgot All about having the ground Crews were All lined up As we took but they always did that for any combat we left late in the when i got about Halfway to Okinawa the propeller just stopped it was a Moonlight and i looked for a place to land and there want any so i set the plane Down in the i got out of the plane with the Seaman first the Waves swamped the we paddled off in our life navigator had been shaken up by the i crash and was pretty i gave him a couple of the chocolate bars happened to and he asked for i thought about the whisky and offered him a drink of but even the smell made him we tried to stay together but a Squall came up and he was washed i imagine the Sharks got i found out about the Sharks i had known those Waters were full of them i would have been too scared even to i was in the water about 17 hours and two or three times i got very even heard voices talking to finally i was washed up on a very Small name is Suwa and it is too Small to be on most the Popula 2