WHAT THE KAMIKAZE PILOTS THOUGHT OF THEIR ACT
Lieutenant Suga Yoshimune
"Life has now become for me a true pleasure, - he said. - What a joyous spring it has become for us - those who are included in the [Special shock] compound: a much warmer and softer than the sad outside world!"
April 20 [1945], the day of departure Tembu, we have six new people, all full of confidence. When we posed for a commemorative photo, holding a branch of a cherry-red, I looked at his twig, which still had flowers, and said to myself: "What happiness, Yokota Yutaka, that you were born a boy! Woman could never feel this! "Zeal overwhelmed us. Shinkai and I swore to each other and sank the biggest ships, which only can be found. I thought about my age - nineteen - and the maxim "To die, when people still mourn your death, to die, when you clean and fresh - this is the true bushido." Yes, I went through a samurai. My eyes were shining, when I once again boarded the I-47. I am happy to remember how Andzay Nobuo quoted a poem, telling me that I "will fall as pure as the cherry blossom", which I now hold in my hands. My thoughts overflowed by the fact that so many times told me Lieutenant Fujimura Sadao, one of the instructors based in Tsutiura: "Never turn away the face of death. If in doubt - to live or die - always better to die ... "We have again embarked on the" Kaiten ", waving their swords, until escorting boats, from which came the good wishes, did not turn back. Then I got into the "Kaiten" and put the ashes Yadzaki and branch with cherry blossoms near the seat.
