banzai attack

British

noun

a mass attack of troops, without concern for casualties, as practised by the Japanese in World War II

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“We decided it must be a banzai attack,” Gibbs recalled.

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Sometimes it would be in force in a banzai attack.

From Literature

On July 7, 1944, while fighting on Saipan, Bean and his comrades faced the largest suicidal banzai attack of the war and, at 24, he was reported missing in action.

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“We thought it was a banzai attack but parrots had moved in on us. They were objecting to us being there. There were hundreds of them.”

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