Military Blunders

'Bombers Without Escorts,' a look at the disastrous miscalculation made by the Army Air Forces when they raided Schweinfurt and Regensburg in Germany in 1943.

An American B-24 Liberator lost over the Mediterranean in a daylight bombing mission

Churchill sends two warships to Singapore without air cover.

In 1940, Mussolini invades Greece, but suffers a severe setback.

The U.S. Navy continues to outfit its carriers with a fatal flaw.

Blunders of battle cruiser design dooms ships in a battle at Jutland.

Allied troops are bombed by their own planes at Normandy.

The USS Indianapolis, returning from a secret mission delivering the atomic bomb, is torpedoed and sinks.

Steeped in the ancient Bushido code of the Samurai, Kamikaze (Divine Wind) forces, or organized suicide attacks, on land (sacrificial attacks), sea (motorboats and torpedoes), and air sacrificed themselves in battle in a desperate bid for victory that spelled ultimate doom for the Japanese Empire these tactics drove the U.S.' decision to use the atomic bomb in order to prevent further loss of life.