80 Years On: Suicide Pilots Shared True Feelings of Not Wanting to Die

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Saga, Aug. 17 (Jiji Press)–Kunitake Toriya was preparing to embark on a kamikaze suicide attack mission against Allied forces during the Battle of Okinawa when the fighting ended in June 1945, just weeks before Japan’s surrender in World War II. Spared from having to make the desperate attack, Toriya, then a corporal in the Imperial Japanese Army, was later detained in Siberia after the wa…

Saga, Aug. 17 (Jiji Press)–Kunitake Toriya was preparing to embark on a kamikaze suicide attack mission against Allied forces during the Battle of Okinawa when the fighting ended in June 1945, just weeks before Japan’s surrender in World War II. Spared from having to make the desperate attack, Toriya, then a corporal in the Imperial Japanese Army, was later detained in Siberia after the wa…