Japanese kamikaze pilots are preparing for departure. Hatimaks are put on the pilot's head in the foreground - a bandage, symbolizing the inflexibility of intentions and maintaining morale; 1945.

Kamikaze pilot

Japanese paratroopers boarding a Mitsubishi Ki-57 (military type 100) - the Allied had the code name "Topsy" - transport aircraft at an airfield. The target of the airdrop was the city of Palembang and the oil fields on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia (Dutch East Indies); 1942.

Paratroopers boarding aircraft

Japanese marines face a tank. The Battle of Shanghai, 1937.  