[JCBreckenridge]

They only had 40 zeros that were flight worthy at Leyte Gulf. By Okinawa they were not using Zeros. They were using little wooden ‘rocket planes’.

[xone]

They only had 40 zeros that were flight worthy at Leyte Gulf. By Okinawa they were not using Zeros. They were using little wooden ‘rocket planes’.

The Japs had 300 ac available at Leyte. They sunk the USS Princeton, they didn't use a Zero or a kamikaze.

little wooden ‘rocket planes’

If you are referring to the Ohka, those had to be ferried, they accounted for 7 ships damaged or sunk. Japs only had 755 of them. The Japs expended 1900 aircraft in kamikaze arracks.