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Bansei Tokkō Peace Museum
Building in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bansei Tokkō Peace Museum (万世特攻平和祈念館, Bansei Tokkō Heiwa Kinenkan) is a war museum in Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture. Opened in 1993, the museum commemorates the 201 airmen from the Bansei Air Base (万世飛行場) who died in a kamikaze attack in the final months of the Pacific War.[1][2][3] Hichiro Naemura, a flight instructor at the Bansei base in 1945, spearheaded the effort to establish this institution as a memorial to his fallen comrades.[4]
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万世特攻平和祈念館 | |
![]() Airmen from Bansei Air Base before their kamikaze mission taken on May 26, 1945. Clockwise from top left: Kaname Takahashi, Takahashi Mineyoshimi, Takemasha Chida, Yukio Araki, and Tsutomu Hayakama. Araki was the youngest known kamikaze pilot to die in the war. | |
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Address | 1955-3 Kasedatakahashi |
Town or city | Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture |
Country | Japan |
Coordinates | 31°26′14″N 130°17′43″E |
Opened | 1993 |
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