The airbase at Chiran, Minamikyūshū, on the Satsuma Peninsula of Kagoshima, Japan, served as the departure point for hundreds of Special Attack or kamikaze sorties launched in the final months of Worl
Tokkou Heiwa Kaikan
Chiran school girls wave farewell to a departing pilot with branches of cherry blossoms.
Ki-43 Hayabusa
Statue of a Kamikaze pilot
During World War II, Japanese Special Attack Units, also called shimbu-tai, were specialized units of the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army, normally used for suicide missions. They in
Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots
…The airbase at Chiran, Minamikyūshū, on the Satsuma Peninsula of Kagoshima, Japan, served as the departure point for hundreds of Special Attack or kamikaze sorties launched in the final months of World War II. A peace museum dedicated to the pilots, the Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots…
On 11 April 1945, a Navy Type 0 carrier fighter of the Kamikaze Special Attack Squadron's 5th Kemmu Squadron (piloted by Flight Sgt. Setsuo Ishino) just before crashing into the USS Missouri
USS Lexington museum in Corpus Christi, Texas. An account of the suicide attack Lexington suffered on 5 November 1944 (a suicide plane hit the Rising Sun Flag spot).
Ohka at the Yasukuni Shrine