DEFENSE AGAINST KAMIKAZE ATTACKS IN WORLD WAR II AND ITS RELEVANCE TO ANTI-SHIP MISSILE DEFENSE, VOL I, AN ANALYTICAL HISTORY OF KAMIKAZE ATTACKS AGAINST SHIPS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY DURING WORLD WAR II

Examines the experience of the US Navy in countering attacks by Japanese suicide aircraft (Kamikaze) in World War II, and provides an analytical history of the Kamikaze program and develops estimates of the effectiveness of the Kamikaze and of efforts to counter it. Statistics on results in the Philippine and Okinawan Campaigns are used to establish estimates of the effectiveness of defense at various states--attack at the source, defense by interceptors, defense by anti-aircraft guns, and the like. These estimates are used to provide a model of overall effectiveness.