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The USS Missouri, site of Japan’s formal surrender to the Allied forces on Sept. 2, 1945, was struck by a kamikaze pilot’s Japanese Zero fighter plane on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa.
The Missouri's baker, Harold "Buster" Campbell, captured this photograph of the plane as it was about to strike the ship. Photo Credit: Battleship Missouri Memorial
No U.S. soldiers were seriously injured in the attack, but the 19-year-old Japanese pilot was killed instantly. The Missouri’s commanding officer, Capt. William Callaghan, ordered that the Japanese pilot receive a military funeral, however, and he was buried at sea the next morning in a ceremony attended by Missouri crew members.
LIENS
Okinawa prefectural Peace Memorial Museum
http://www.peace-museum.pref.okinawa.jp/english/index.html
http://www.peace-museum.pref.okinawa.jp/english/index.html
Former Japanese Navy Underground Headquarters
http://kaigungou.ocvb.or.jp/top.html
Sakima art museum
http://sakima.jp/
Article en anglais de Dave Byatt sur l'histoire des Keramas en 1945
Diapositives d'Okinawa d'après-guerre :
