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. he is the youngest pilot 

Kamikaze pilots

334 bombing airplains (B-29) raided on the night of March 9–10, dropping around 1,700 tons of bombs to Tokyo. Around 16 square miles (41 km2) of the city was destroyed and over 100,000 people are estimated to have died in the fire storm.