Kamikaze

Kamikaze means divine wind in Japanese and was the name adopted by Japanese suicide pilots who flew their planes into US warships towards the end of WWII. The original divine winds were the typhoons that dispersed the Mongol invasion fleets in 1274 and 1281. It is believed that Japan, like most of the Asian world at that time, would have succumbed to the Mongols if these divine winds had not come to their rescue.