The New Pictures, Aug. 13, 1945

The Fleet That Came to Stay (U.S. Navy-Paramount) is a shattering and dreadful record of the work of Japan's suicide flyers. The U.S. fleet which stood off Okinawa not only came to stay, it had to stay. The 6,000 to 7,000 of Japan's youngest men who flew Japan's oldest planes were quite as inextricably committed; they were locked into the mortal vortex of the divine tempest—Kamikaze.

Judging by the few who were brought down and captured, most of them knew just enough about flying to keep their crates straight and level, and had...

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