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To: oldvirginian

No less than Admiral Ugaki led about sixteen zealous flight cadets on a final kamikaze mission the day *after* the surrender was announced.


187 posted on 05/10/2016 4:08:35 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: M1903A1

I hadn’t known that.
Thanks.

Japanese soldiers were coming out of the jungle for thirty years because they refused to believe the war was over.
Talk about hardheaded!


190 posted on 05/10/2016 6:16:27 PM PDT by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me. CRUZ 2016!)
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