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Kikuchi, Rokurō

Date of death:
June 1942 (Kure Atoll)
Mentioned on:
Yasukuni War Shrine
Nationality:
Japanese (1868-1945, Empire)

Biography

During the Battle of Midway, 1st Lieutenant Kikuchi and other crew members of his Nakajima B5N "Kate" bomber crash-landed near Kure Island. The crew either refused capture and were subsequently killed, or committed suicide when an American landing party tried to capture them.

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