Chronology of World War II
Saturday, May 26th
Pilots of the 72nd Shinbu Squadron
May 26, 1945. Corporal Yukio Araki, holding a puppy, with four other pilots of the 72nd Shinbu Squadron at Bansei, Kagoshima. Araki died the following day, at age 17, in a suicide attack on ships near Okinawa.
