The Tachiarai Army Flight School opened in 1940 and trained many pilots who took part in kamikaze operations in the last year of the war. The Tachiarai Flight School had a branch school in Chiran (Kagoshima Prefecture), where many Army pilots departed to make suicide attacks on the American fleet near Okinawa. Operations at Tachiarai came to an end when American B-29s destroyed the base on March 27, 1945.
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戦闘 - Battle; Combat
2601 - 1941
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卒業記念 - Graduation Commemorative
大刀洗陸軍飛行學校 - Tachiarai Army Flight School
第八十四期操縦學生 - 84th Class of Pilot Students
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多田 - Taba