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Some died in a final banzai charge; others ended their own lives rather than surrender to the Americans.
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Hannah Beech, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
But in the short term, the modern banzai charges—however costly for the Russians—are working.
—David Axe, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
And yet, despite its extreme location, Arctic conditions and the site of the first horrific banzai charge of the war, history has relegated the Aleutian campaign to a footnote amid bigger conflicts in the Pacific, Garfield wrote.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
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Hannah Beech, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
But in the short term, the modern banzai charges—however costly for the Russians—are working.
—David Axe, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
And yet, despite its extreme location, Arctic conditions and the site of the first horrific banzai charge of the war, history has relegated the Aleutian campaign to a footnote amid bigger conflicts in the Pacific, Garfield wrote.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
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“Banzai charge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/banzai%20charge. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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