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Corporal Atsunobu Sasaki

Corporal Kaname Takahashi 18

Corporal Mineyoshi Takahashi 17

Corporal Masato Hisanaga 20

Corporal Toshio Chizaki 19

Corporal Takamasa Senda 19

This squadron was formed on January 30, 1945 as the 113 Educational
Flight Corps, then was transformed to the 23rd Rensei Flight Corps. On March 30,
1945, the same unit was renamed the 72nd Shinbu Squadron. (Shinbu refers to the squadrons of the

Imperial Army which made the suicide attacks by aircraft.) They were stationed in

Heijo, what is now P'yongyan of North Korea. From March 25, 1944, they were in

Kagamihara, Gifu prefecture for about one month. Before the mission in
May, the unit returned to Kyushu, and stayed in Metabaru, for a few days, and flew over to Bansei

Air Base. Their attack was first planned to be made on May 20, 1945, however it was postponed to May 27, 1945 due to rainy weather.

Of the twelve pilots, three did not depart for the suicide attack.
Corporal Atsunobu

Sasaki was killed by an American P-51 on May 2, 1945 in China. On the same day,

Sergeant Nobuyoshi Nishikawa was injured, and could not take part in the mission.

The aircraft of Kairyu Kanamoto malfunctioned on the day of their mission, and could not take off. The remaining nine made their mission from Bansei Air
Base at 6:00 a.m.,

May 27, 1945.

Appendix Three

The Research Method

The first time I learned of this topic was in August, 1992. It was the time when I went with my parents to Japan and visited manmuseums and talked to many people whose age varied from12 to 60 and they have told me many stories about war.

There, a great number of primary sources and photographs were displayed, which made me even more interested in the topic.

Since the summer of 1992, the collection of information started, with no academic purpose. In 1993, the book Rikugun Saigo no Tokko Kichi by Shichiro
Naemura was published. This book was about the Kamikaze pilots who departed from Bansei

Air Base.

That summer of 1993 was crucial to my interest in the Kamikaze pilots.
First, I visited

Chiran Tokko Heiwa Kaikan again on August 21, and looked in more detail at the letters, diaries and photographs of the pilots. The photographs were extremely inspiring in a sense, since in none of them were the pilots showing an expression of fatigue, or regret. Most of them were smiling.

On the same night, I decided to spend the evening at "Tomiya Ryokan" which is what used to be the small restaurant Ms. Tome Torihama ran during the war, and which the

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