On the evening of May 23rd, 1945, in the Japanese town of Chiran, Masanobu Kuno sat down and hand-wrote this farewell letter to his 5-year-old son, Masanori, and 2-year-old daughter, Kiyoko; the next day, he proudly boarded his explosive-laden aircraft, took to the skies, and deliberately flew his plane into an Allied warship as part of the Battle of Ok…
Avenge my death
On the eve of his final mission, a kamikaze pilot writes to his children
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