banzai charge

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banzai charge - a mass attack of troops without concern for casualties; originated by Japanese who accompanied it with yells of `banzai'

banzai attack

attack, onrush, onset, onslaught - (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons); "the attack began at dawn"

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Nakagawa's last words to his troops--only a little more than a hundred of them were still alive and most of those were wounded--called for them to die for the Emperor in a banzai charge. Many of those who were physically able did so and the soldiers of the 81st Infantry granted them their death wish.

All for naught: The Battle of Peleliu: Peleliu could have been leap-frogged, as had many other Japanese-held Islands, but the Marines were ordered to take the Island and did so with great bravery, skill, and loss of life

Bennett of B Company bravely sacrificed his life, earning the MOH in confronting "a ferocious banzai charge."

On the offensive: Operation Piledriver: action in the Iron Triangle and Punchbowl in June 1951 effectively ended the war of maneuver in Korea. (Korean War)

The car makes a banzai charge for the wall producing a pucker factor of 100.

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Whereas a Japanese soldier bent on a suicidal Banzai charge might absorb plenty of the little pills before falling, the average Wehrmacht trooper would be more inclined to seek medical attention after absorbing a round.