Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Kaiten

Kaiten (Japanese: 回天, literal translation: "Return to the sky", commonly rendered as: "The turn toward heaven", "The Heaven Shaker" or "Change the World") were manned torpedoes and suicide craft, used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II.

File:Kaiten Type 1 on display at the Yūshūkan in October 2008.JPG
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