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April 28, 2008

• Yasunobu, Kamikaze tokkoutai (Kamikaze special attack corps)
• Wings of Defeat - links to information related to this documentary film
• Rooney, Mighty Midget U.S.S. LCS 82

March 8, 2008

• Yamato Museum
• Amakusa Naval Air Group Monument
• Kamikaze Pilot Statue (Yasukuni Jinja Yushukan) (added photo and information on plaque erected in 2005 next to statue)
• Museums (revised)
• Saburou Hotaru (Saburo, the Firefly)

February 16, 2008

• Kin Monument
• Charney, USS Ingraham DD694: 1944-1945
• Our Fighting Forces - Battle Album: Kamikaze (Divine Wind)

January 6, 2008

• Kamikaze Mother
• Itsu made mo, itsu made mo ogenki de (Be in good spirits forever and ever)
• Thurman, Picket Ships at Okinawa
• Chiran Special Attack Peace Kannon Shrine (revised)
• Aa tokkou wakazakura (Ah, young special attack cherry blossom)
• Future Plans (revised)

December 2, 2007

• Shunsuke Tomiyasu
• Takuma Naval Air Group Monument
• Sholin, The Kamikaze Nightmare: Terror of the Lambs
• Odotsu 117th Shinyo Special Attack Squadron Monument
• Conroy, 1945

November 17, 2007

• Himeji Naval Air Group Monument
• Kushira Naval Air Base War Dead Memorial Tower (revised)
• Tsukuba Naval Air Group Monument
• Tomitaka Kamikaze Special Attack Corps Sortie Site Monument
• Kanoya Special Attack Corps War Dead Memorial Tower (revised)
• Nagoya Kamikaze Special Attack Corps Kusanagi Unit Monument

October 28, 2007

• Kuroshima Special Attack Peace Kannon
• Kanoya Naval Air Base Museum (revised)
• Kochi Naval Air Group Monument
• Kashiwajima Special Attack Shinyo Base Monument
• Tsuiki Kamikaze Ginga Squadron Sortie Site Monument
• Tokita, Otousan e no senbazuru (A thousand origami cranes for father)

September 22, 2007

• 2007 USS Callaghan (DD-792) Reunion
• Kawatana Special Attack War Monument
• Hawaii Five-O, Samurai
• For Five Seconds, A Gunner by Daniel A. Kitchen, Lt. USNR (Retired)

August 26, 2007

• Aa tokubetsu kougekitai (Ah, Special Attack Corps)
• Kamikaze, the Ultimate Sacrifice by Daniel A. Kitchen, Lt. USNR (Retired)
• Mighty Midgets 2007 Reunion
• 10th Ko Class Monument to Vanguard of Special Attack Corps
• Ball, Fighting Amphibs: The LCS(L) in World War II

July 23, 2007

• Spiritual Foundation of Kamikaze Special Attack Corps Members by Senri Nagasue, former kamikaze pilot (translation)
• "Aa Ioutou" "Ningen gyorai kaiten" ("Ah, Iwo Jima" "Kaiten human torpedo")
• Foster, The Last Destroyer: The Story of the USS Callaghan
• Yasujima, Tokkou hyouryuu (Special attack drift)
• Jinno, Azusa tokubetsu kougekitai (Azusa special attack unit) (added Note 2 related to number of casualties on USS Randolph)
• Acknowledgments (revised)

June 30, 2007

• 49 Ships Sunk by Kamikaze Aircraft
• Rielly, Mighty Midgets At War: The Saga of the LCS(L) Ships from Iwo Jima to Vietnam
• Aa, tokkou: Chiran, Kanoya ni saita wakazakura (Ah, special attacks: Young cherry blossoms that bloomed in Chiran and Kanoya)
• Parkin, Blood on the Sea: American Destroyers Lost in World War II
• Navy Kamikaze Air Bases
• Links (revised)

May 28, 2007

• 2007 USS Morrison (DD-560) Reunion
• Henshin (Reply) by Mariya Takeuchi
• Battle - Kamikaze!
• Wings Comics (Fall 1952) - Kamikaze

April 29, 2007

• Kaiten no haha: Ningen gyorai (Kaiten mother: Human torpedo)
• Burlingame, Advance Force Pearl Harbor
• With His Shakuhachi
• "I'll Give You My Years"
• Last Family Photo
• Hotaru Museum (revised)
• Cherry Blossoms of Same Class
• Deguchi no nai umi (Sea without exit) - manga

March 31, 2007

• Chiran no haha: hotaru (Chiran mother: Firefly)
• Nakagawa, Senkan Yamato ga shizunda hi (Day that Battleship Yamato Sank)
• Acord and Holbrook, Hell and High Water in the Pacific: The Story of the USS Lowry, DD 770
• Kuwahara and Allred, Kamikaze (revised)

February 20, 2007

• Special Submarine Monument
• Fightin' Navy - Kamikaze Killer
• Kuniyoshi, Shounen to Ishigakijima tokkou kichi (A Boy and Ishigakijima Special Attack Base)
• Ourasaki Special Attack Base (P Base) Monument

January 13, 2007

• Slade, Kamikaze
• Haranomachi Airfield Monument
• Kakogawa Special Attack Corps Monument
• Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots (revised)
• Grant, Attack from the sun

December 14, 2006

• Yokoyama, Deguchi no nai umi (Sea without exit)
• Ehime Pilot Training School War Monument
• Nikaido, Umi no bohyou: Suijou tokkou "shinyoutei" no kiroku (Grave markers at sea: Record of sea-based special attack shinyo boats)
• Miyakonojo Hayate Shinbu Special Attack Corps Monument (revised)

November 29, 2006

• Tokkou no shima 1 (The isle of tokkou 1)
• Ghostly Tales - The Last Kamikaze!
• Zenkoji Kamikaze Special Attack Corps Monument
• Hikari Kaiten Monument
• Hikari War Monument
• Kaiten Memorial Museum (revised)

October 7, 2006

• Away All Boats
• Hiroi, Hotaru ni natta tokkouhei: Miyakawa Saburo monogatari (Kamikaze pilot who turned into firefly: Story of Saburo Miyakawa)
• Ten Historical Discrepancies - related to Kamikaze (1957) by Kuwahara and Allred; article on American Legacy Media website
• Wilson, Black Wind
• Kuwahara and Allred, Kamikaze (revised)
• Books - Personal Narratives and Books - Fiction (revised)
• Yokaren Shiryoukan (Yokaren Museum) - web site review (revised)

September 10, 2006

• Timewatch: Kamikaze
• Our Fighting Forces
• Tokkou heishi yo yasuraka ni (Kamikaze pilots, rest in peace)
• Films - Documentaries (revised)
• Arnold, Standby Arnold

August 13, 2006

• Kamikaze Diaries (added Note 2)
• Akatsuki no kassouro (Runway at dawn)
• Links (revised)
• Message Boards (revised)
• Moved Monuments to be a top-level section of web site

August 7, 2006

• Park, When My Name Was Keoko
• Little Italy to Okinawa
• Otome nadeshiko chiran kichi (Chiran Base, devoted girl)
• Haha no kokoro (Mother's heart)
• Who Sank the Destroyer Drexler? (revised, significant additions: (1) Lt. Robert F. Bourne's flight log with remark of "SHOT DOWN 2 NICKS," (2) Bob McIntyre's statement on number of planes and his opinion on plane type)
• Ningen no Tsubasa (Wings of a Man) (added two photos near bottom of page)

August 1, 2006

• Survival of Drexler Survivors Reunion Association
• Ferry, Raspberry One
• Tokkou obasan arigatou (Tokko aunt, thank you)
• Blackhawk - The Red Kamikaze Terror
• Kemp, Underwater Warriors

July 12, 2006

• Taiheiyou no Tsubasa (Wings of the Pacific)
• Chiran no haha (Chiran mother)
• Harper, Too Close for Comfort
• Gray, Tokyo Torpedo
• Fillmore, War History of USS Leutze (DD-481)
• Cline, Escort Carrier WWII: War in the Pacific on the Aircraft Carrier USS Petrof Bay
• Bansei Tokko Peace Museum (revised due to change in name from Kaseda Peace Museum) 

June 1, 2006

• Censored Suicide
• Kamikaze Diaries
• True Comics - Name to Remember
• Anchor of USS Aaron Ward
• Samuels, War Patrol of the PCE(R)852

May 1, 2006

• Brown and Anteau, Historical Review: U.S.S. Drexler DD-741
• Who Sank the Destroyer Drexler?
• Lott, Brave Ship Brave Men
• Presidential Unit Citation to Aaron Ward
• The Six Million Dollar Man - The Last Kamikaze

April 7, 2006

• U.S.S. Stevens: Ride the Baka
• Nicole, The Ship with No Name
• Wings Comics
• Forever Grateful by Fred W. Mitchell
• High Roads

March 12, 2006

• Imanishi, Sumirejima (Violet Island)
• Sumirejima (Violet Island) - English Translation
• Aihoshi, Hana no toki wa kanashimi no toki (Flower season, a sad season)
• Sakaida and Takaki, Genda's Blade: Japan's Squadron of Aces: 343 Kokutai
• Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots (revised)
• Books - Related Topics

February 6, 2006

• Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
• Sato, Tokkou no machi: Chiran (Special attack corps town: Chiran)
• Sinking the Supership
• Eadon, ed., Kamikaze: The Story of the British Pacific Fleet
• Cortesi, Valor at Okinawa

January 8, 2006

• Becton, The Ship That Would Not Die
• Stone, "My Ship!" The U.S.S. Intrepid
• Ship Histories
• Oberg, Lucky Sweetbrier
• Power in a Smile - speech

December 24, 2005

• Searls, The Hero Ship
• Untold Stories of WWII: Three Secrets that Changed the War
• Kamikaze:1946
• Nichibei taiheiyou kessen!! (Japanese-American Final Battle in Pacific!!)

November 25, 2005

• Jinno, Azusa tokubetsu kougekitai (Azusa special attack unit)
• Triangular Barracks Site Monument
• Never Seeing His Child (added photo)
• Sholin, Truman's Decision: Kamikazes the Unknown Factor

October 22, 2005

• Shimahara, Shiroi kumo no kanata ni (To the distant white clouds)
• Japan's Last Hope by Irving Wallace
• Kokubu Special Attack Base Monument

September 24, 2005

• Minaminippon Living Shinbunsha, Zerosen ni kaketa otoko (Man who soared in Zero fighter)
• Monsarrat, Angel on the Yardarm: The Beginnings of Fleet Radar Defense and the Kamikaze Threat
• Hyakurigahara Naval Air Group Monument
• Smiling Faces of Peace - speech
• Peace and the Dignity of Life: What My Uncle Taught Me - speech
• Kaga, Riding the East Wind (revised)

August 18, 2005

• Ibusuki Naval Air Base Remembrance Monument
• Monuments - Lists
• Tenzan Corps Monument
• Life and Peace - speech

July 20, 2005

• Kudo, Tokkou e no rekuiemu (The Requiem for Kamikaze)
• Kamikaze Pilot Statue (Tokko Jinja)
• Battleship Yamato Memorial Tower
• Meaning and Joy of Living - speech
• Kosaka, Tokkoutaiin no inochi no koe ga kikoeru (Hearing the voices of lives of special attack corps members)
• Great Blunders of WWII: The Failure of the Kamikaze

June 19, 2005

• Malott, "If We Save But One": Going to War with Jinrai Butai "The Kamikaze"
• Donryu Jizo Great Bodhisattva
• Kamakura Ohka Monument
• Fowler, The Astrological Diary of God

May 7, 2005

• Last Letters of Corporal Yukio Araki
• Tillman, Hellcats
• Youth Pilots' Memorial Column
• Leicester, Kamikaze
• U.S.S. Stevens: Kamikaze

April 24, 2005

• Mannock, The Sen-Toku Raid
• Mori, Yuki wa juunanasai tokkou de shinda (Yuki died at 17 in a kamikaze attack)
• Usa Special Attack Monument
• Gladiators of World War II: The Kamikazes
• Books - Fiction (revised)

April 3, 2005

• Fading Victory: The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941-1945
• Final Letter in Katakana
• Kashima Ohka Park
• Asahi Shimbun Seibu Honsha, Sora no kanata ni (To distant skies)
• Typhoon at Okinawa
• Poem by Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki

March 13, 2005

• Akabane and Ishii, Hotaru kaeru (The firefly returns)
• Kaga, Riding the East Wind
• No Surrender: German and Japanese Kamikazes
• Aeronautical Staff of Aero Publishers, Kamikaze
• Final Project Paper - Kamikaze Images (PDF file)

February 13, 2005

• Tokyo Dome War Monument
• Streb, Life and Death Aboard the U.S.S. Essex
• Mori, Piano wa shitte iru: Gekkou no natsu (The piano knows: Summer of the moonlight sonata)

January 16, 2005

• The Fleet That Came to Stay
• Army Special Cadet Pilot Training Program Monument (Kyoto)
• Peace Bridge to the Future - speech

December 15, 2004

Web site officially opened.

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