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The banzai charge is considered to be one method of gyokusai (玉砕, "shattered jewel"; honorable suicide), a suicide attack, or suicide before being captured by the enemy such as seppuku. [5] The origin of the term is a classical Chinese phrase in the 7th-century Book of Northern Qi , which states " 丈夫玉碎恥甎全 ", "A true man would ...
Over Nagumo's objections, Saito made plans for a final suicidal banzai charge. On the fate of the remaining civilians on the island, Saitō said, "There is no longer any distinction between civilians and troops. It would be better for them to join in the attack with bamboo spears than be captured."
Attack from Space is a 1965 science fiction compilation film produced for American television. It is the third film, following Atomic Rulers of the World (1 and 2) and Invaders from Space (3 and 4), to be comprised from the six installments of the Japanese short film series Super Giant from Shintoho .
Banzai charge or banzai attack, a last, desperate military charge; Banzai Cliff, one of the sites of mass Japanese suicide on the island of Saipan during World War II; Banzai skydive, the act of throwing a parachute out of a plane and trying to catch up to it in mid-fall, put it on, and deploy it before hitting the ground
Message from Space: Galactic Wars (宇宙からのメッセージ・銀河大戦, Uchū kara no Messēji: Ginga Taisen) is a Japanese TV series written by Shotaro Ishinomori, co-produced by Toei Company and TV Asahi and aired on TV Asahi from July 8, 1978 to January 27, 1979, with a total of 27 episodes.
Japanese woodcut print depicting an infantry charge in the Russo-Japanese War. A human wave attack, also known as a human sea attack, [1] is an offensive infantry tactic in which an attacker conducts an unprotected frontal assault with densely concentrated infantry formations against the enemy line, intended to overrun and overwhelm the defenders by engaging in melee combat.
On a reconnaissance mission, Kodai captures a Gamilan pilot. The crew is shocked to see Gamilans are pretty much humans. Follows Kodai's flashback of year 2192 when Japan was meteor bombarded for the time, his parents died, and his brother was enlisted as a space cadet.
Even so, the Nazis declared all of Hungary except for Budapest free of Jews. [10] Japanese destroyer Tamanani was torpedoed and sunk off Manila by the American submarine Mingo. German submarine U-678 was sunk in the English Channel by Allied warships. The horror film The Mummy's Ghost starring Lon Chaney Jr. was released.