Hudson Austin vs Takijiro Onishi

Hudson Austin was a key figure in the New Jewel Movement's bloodless coup that overthrew Prime Minister Eric Gairy. The coup established the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) under Maurice Bishop, with Austin as a senior military commander.

The U.S.-led invasion of Grenada, Operation Urgent Fury, began on October 25, 1983. Hudson Austin's junta was quickly defeated. Austin was captured by U.S. forces and later handed over to Grenadian authorities.

After the internal split in the PRG and the execution of Maurice Bishop in October 1983, General Hudson Austin seized power and formed a military junta, the Revolutionary Military Council. He announced a 24-hour curfew and declared martial law.

Hudson Austin was tried and convicted for the murder of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and others during the 1983 coup. He was sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment. He served over 20 years before being released in 2008.

Onishi organized the first official kamikaze special attack units, the Shimpu Tokubetsu Kogekitai, in the Philippines. He ordered volunteer pilots to crash their aircraft into US ships, initiating a new tactic of suicide attacks that would continue for the rest of the war.

Onishi was appointed commander of the First Air Fleet in the Philippines. Facing overwhelming US air superiority and lacking trained pilots, he implemented the kamikaze strategy as a desperate measure to inflict damage on the US fleet.

Onishi committed suicide by seppuku (ritual disembowelment) on August 16, 1945, the day after Japan's surrender. He left a note apologizing to the families of kamikaze pilots and urging young Japanese to work for peace.