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Kashima Kōkūtai, Kashima base, Japan, 1944

This late production aircraft was finished in

a factory applied dark green paint. Kashima

Kōkūtai was established in 1938 as a training unit

for seaplane crews. Her fighter unit, armed with

Rufe floatplanes, was deployed several times

to fight alongside Katori Kōkūtai airmen in the

Home Defence and achieved several fighter and

bomber kills. It was probably with this unit that

the Hellcats of VBF-12 from USS Saratoga (CV-3)

came into conflict around Kashima on February

16, 1945 and the Hellcats of VF-29 from USS Cabot

(CVL-28) on March 18. In the first mentioned

combat, the American fighters reported five

Rufe kills and in the latter encounter claimed

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four victories. In May 1945, the Kashima Kōkūtai

training section was cancelled, and a number of

aircraft and crews were deployed on Kamikaze

missions. Kashima Kōkūtai was disbanded at the

end of the war.

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