David Sears is a New Jersey-based historian and author. A former United States Navy officer as well as a Vietnam war veteran, he is the author of several books, including The Last Epic Naval Battle, Such Men as These, Pacific Air, and At War with the Wind.
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In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific. To the sailors who learned to fear them, the body-crashing warriors of Japan were known as 'suiciders'; among the Japanese, they were named for a... SEE MORE