Suicide Dive In Vain -- A Japanese Kamikaze (Suicide Plane) attempting to crash-dive aboard an Essex-class carrier, one of the Navy's newest, ran into a heavy blanket of anti-aircraft fire which send it crashing into the sea, just missing the carrier bow. Action took place in the Pacific. June 15, 1945. (Photo by U.S. Navy).
Suicide Dive In Vain -- A Japanese Kamikaze (Suicide Plane) attempting to crash-dive aboard an Essex-class carrier, one of the Navy's newest, ran into a heavy blanket of anti-aircraft fire which send it crashing into the sea, just missing the carrier bow. Action took place in the Pacific. June 15, 1945. (Photo by U.S. Navy).