japanese army air foce ace Lieutenant Yajima Yoshihiko with his family after his return from the war in china 1938, Lieutenant Yajima destroyed 10 chinese aircraft and 6 soviet planes, he was killed during the Battle of Khalkhin Gol 

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confidence looking japanese navy pilot (china 1939)

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Ishimaru Shiniti was famous baseball player in pre-war japan, and in 1944 he decided to join in the japanese navy air force and trained in the nagoya naval base, in 1945 he decided to join in the kamikaze corps and partipated in a suicide mission against the american fleet during the battle of okinawa, he becamed the only baseball player to died in a kamikaze mission 