The Zero Hour on Radio Tokyo (NHK)
DIVINE WIND !!!
"Tenno Heika Banzai (天皇陛下萬歲)!"
"Lower in means, power, number, but not of courage, the extraordinary Pilots of the Rising Sun, as ancient Samurai, pass through the fire wall raised by the Americans to stop them.
Targeted by enemy fighters and powerful flak, attacked from all directions, on their slow and fragile aircraft, these heroes of the Rising Sun do not stop and, in defiance of life, reach and devastate the American Carrier Essex. "
Only narrowly the U.S. Carrier does not sink but its hull is devastated and the speed reduced.
20 powerful American planes destroyed on deck by bombs of Japanese Pilots :
9 SBD-5
4 F4U-1D Corsair
7 P-47D-22 Thunderbolt
Emperor Showa (Hirohito) 昭和天皇
The Emperor brings his gratitude to these brave Samurai, publicly exposing the canvas showing the Emperor Kameyama sacrifice to avert the invasion of the country.
"Kimigayo" (君が代?) Japanese anthem
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"Tenno Heika Banzai (天皇陛下萬歲 - long live the Emperor)!"
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Imperial Air Flotilla
大日本帝国海軍 Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun
Navy of the Empire of Greater Japan (IJN)
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