Regarding that British leader I said in the 'WW1' thread killed by a kamikaze:
... just looked it up in Churchill's 'WW2', vols. 5 and 6, and I was actually thinking of Gen. Lumsden aboard USS New Mexico off Lingayen.
But hey, it WAS a kamikaze! (and my brain cells are going at some rate...)
Having led the 12th Lancers' armoured cars in France 1940, and the 1st Armoured Division at and after Alamein, he was Winston's liaison with MacArthur, and Churchill writes that he 'soon gained MacArthur's confidence'. He and Admiral Fraser (Home Fleet leader at North Cape) were on the New Mexico's bridge observing the bombardment of Lingayen. Fraser moved to the other side to get a better view, so by chance survived (died in the '80s IIRC), then the kamikaze struck.
... just looked it up in Churchill's 'WW2', vols. 5 and 6, and I was actually thinking of Gen. Lumsden aboard USS New Mexico off Lingayen.
But hey, it WAS a kamikaze! (and my brain cells are going at some rate...)
Having led the 12th Lancers' armoured cars in France 1940, and the 1st Armoured Division at and after Alamein, he was Winston's liaison with MacArthur, and Churchill writes that he 'soon gained MacArthur's confidence'. He and Admiral Fraser (Home Fleet leader at North Cape) were on the New Mexico's bridge observing the bombardment of Lingayen. Fraser moved to the other side to get a better view, so by chance survived (died in the '80s IIRC), then the kamikaze struck.
