The Kaiten Weapon

THE KAITEN WEAPON is the full story of a fantastic suicide weapon—the manned torpedo —and of the volunteers who deliberately offered their lives in defense of Japan. So secret that few people even in Japan knew of its existence, the Kaiten force was a desperate and fanatic attempt to smash the U.S. fleet in the closing months of the war. Yutaka Yokota, a Kaiten force volunteer himself, tells how men were trained, gives complete details about the weapon's performance and how it was operated, and