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Second Sino-Japanese War. Bombing of Chongqing. World War II. Pacific War. Battle of Leyte Gulf. Takijirō Ōnishi (大西 瀧治郎, Ōnishi Takijirō, 2 June 1891 – 16 August 1945) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II who came to be known as the father of the kamikaze.
- 大西 瀧治郎
- 2 June 1891, Tamba, Hyōgo, Japan
- Empire of Japan
- 16 August 1945 (aged 54), Tokyo, Japan
Jan 20, 2024 · Vice-Admiral Onishi assembled the first kamikaze squadron from the 201st Air Group in the Philippines. A 23-year-old lieutenant, Yukio Seki, was told by Onishi himself that he was to lead the ...
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Oct 26, 2020 · Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi was one of the first Naval Aviators in the Imperial Navy. He was responsible for leading and training of the incipient Naval Air forces. Nearly his entire career was devoted to creating the Japanese Naval Air Forces. He opposed the attack on Pearl Harbor because he knew Japan would be defeated.
Oct 25, 2019 · The town of Mabalacat on Luzon Island in the Philippines unveiled a life-sized kamikaze pilot statue on October 25, 2004. The statue atop a tall pedestal stands in a small lot in front of a wall that shows the Japanese rising sun flag on its right half and the Philippine flag on its left half. The lot also has a torii, traditional Japanese gate ...
Apr 10, 2020 · The kamikaze, as we understand him now, seems both heroic and horrifying at the same time. Depending on where your World War II allegiances lie, he may be just one or the other. But the kamikaze is, with no argument anywhere, legendary in the annals of human battle. "Surely, the Kamikaze war was the strangest and in many ways most dramatic ever ...
Vice Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi - organized first official Kamikaze Corps in October 1944 in Philippines; Vice Admiral Masafumi Arima - prior to formation of first official Kamikaze Corps, personally led group of planes against U.S. carrier task force and made suicide attack on ship on October 15, 1944
Nov 10, 2012 · The first Kamikaze attack took place on October 25, 1944, when five navy Zero fighters, each carrying a 250-kilogram bomb, plunged into American warships and were transported off the coast of Leyte. Encouraged by the results, Vice Admiral Ōnishi Takijirō (大西瀧治郎) of the First Air Fleet, who had conceived the idea, hastily recruited ...
