banzai attack

British  

noun

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

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banzai attack

“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.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2020

John Sidur rescued two hometown buddies during Japan’s largest banzai attack of the war, near the end of the Battle of Saipan in July 1945.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2017

Swooping and slashing down the ice, the shaggy-haired trio is a French Canadian version of a banzai attack.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes it would be in force in a banzai attack.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

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