japanese army air force engineers in an airfield (south pacific 1944)

airfield 

An volunteer army formed by japanese to defend java island from the allied

PETA on training in Bogor 1944

japanese army general Yasuyo Yamasaki just before his departure to the aleutian islands, in 1943 he commanded the Japanese forces on Attu during the Battle of the Aleutian Islands. The battle produced some of the bloodiest fighting in the Pacific Theatre, similar to the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, he led one of the largest banzai charges of the pacific campaign, His attack penetrated American lines far enough to encounter shocked rear-echelon units of the American force. After furious, brutal, close-quarter, and often hand-to-hand, combat the Japanese force was killed almost to the last man: only 28 prisoners were taken, none of them an officer, he was later declared a God of war and War Martyr
