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Lt. Nobuo Miyatake, Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kōgekitai, 1. Shichisei-tai, Kanoya airbase,
Japan, April 1944
From April 3, 1945, a total of eight special attack
units with the battle name “Shichisei” were
organized from the airmen serving in Genzan
Kōkūtai (II) and Hikōtai 306 (part of Kōkūtai 721).
Lt. Miyatake, who was 24 years old at the time,
led the 1st Shichisei-tai in an attack on a convoy
off Okinawa on April 6, 1945. During that day,
eleven other airmen from Genzan Kōkūtai (II)
sacrificed their lives along with him. They took
off successively in four formations. Their unit
was part of the 524 aircraft of special attack
units and escort fighters from IJN and IJA sent
against Allied vessels off Okinawa as part of
Operation Kikusui I. The U.S. Navy lost destroyers
USS Bush and Colhoun and other ships were
severely damaged. “Shichisei” units were sent
against ships off Okinawa, Yoronjima, Kikai, and
Tanegashima islands in several missions till May
14. Only one of them returned to base due to
bad weather. Lt. Miyatake was born in Kagawa
Prefecture and graduated from the Etajima
Naval Academy in 1942. Before the mission, he
wrote farewell letters to his mother and three
sisters. His father was interned in Siberia at
the time. Nobuo Miyatake was posthumously
promoted to the rank of Commander. His aircraft
from Nakajima production is designated „Ke-113“.
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