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April 1 - June 22, 1945

Okinawa, Japan

Chiran high school girls wave kamikaze pilot

Chiran high school girls wave kamikaze pilot — Okinawa, Japan

Chiran high school girls are waving farewell with cherry blossom branches to a taking-off kamikaze pilot. The pilot is Second Lieutenant Toshio Anazawa of Army Special Attack Unit (20th Shinbu party). The aircraft, an Army Type 1 fighter "Hayabusa" III- type-Ko holding a 250kg bomb, is departing tow

Photograph by Hayakawa (早川)

Part of the Pacific Theater