August 19, 1945, Manchuria, The Last Kamikaze: The Special Attack Pilot Who Flew with His Wife①
...The eleven kamikaze planes began to take off one by one. At that moment, Lieutenant Ichiro Horie, a second-generation kamikaze pilot, pointed to one of the planes and shouted.
"There's a woman in that plane!"
In Manchuria immediately after the end of the war, the Soviet army, which had unilaterally violated the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and invaded, was carrying out a massacre of Japanese residents. However, the Japanese Army's "Kwantung Army" stationed in Manchuria followed the surrender order, abandoning their comrades and giving up fighting the Soviet army.
...The eleven kamikaze planes began to take off one by one. At that moment, Lieutenant Ichiro Horie, a second-generation kamikaze pilot, pointed to one of the planes and shouted.
"There's a woman in that plane!"
In Manchuria immediately after the end of the war, the Soviet army, which had unilaterally violated the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and invaded, was carrying out a massacre of Japanese residents. However, the Japanese Army's "Kwantung Army" stationed in Manchuria followed the surrender order, abandoning their comrades and giving up fighting the Soviet army.