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15 February 2014

9:00 AM

15 February 2014

9:00 AM

A kamikaze pilot at 80

The Japanese city of Minami-Kyushu was attacked for wanting to add the letters of 1,036 kamikaze pilots who died on suicide missions in the second world war to a UN archive. Not all kamikaze pilots died, and a few are still alive.
— Shigeyoshi Hamazono, who is now in his eighties, achieved the unique distinction of surviving three kamikaze missions.

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