1992. Geraldo Rivera’s Now It Can Be Told program brings us back to World War II, with a quick look at the fighters of the ‘Divine Wind’. Craig Rivera reports as we begin with the last letter from a kamikaze pilot, written just prior to his death and completed mission. Later we move to the approximately 350 Japanese pilots who survived, usually as a result of failing their mission. They have met at the same place one the same day for 50 years, as after the war most temples would not allow them to pray on the grounds. Footage of actual kamikaze assaults during World War II is interspersed throughout this clip.
One way of surviving a kamikaze flight was the plane being shot down before it hit the target, with the pilot eventually rescued.