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1. Bill says:
   24 Oct 2009 10:27:42 AM
   
   "If you would shoot a general, first destroy
   his horse"
   
   -Japanese Proverb-
   
   First Successes..
   Lieutenant Seki, who had been the first to
   volunteer, should be the first to succeed.
   Seki's aircraft the older Mitsubishi A6M2
   Model 21, loaded with a 250-kilogram bomb. For four days,he had sortied,only to return
   in disappointment.But the fifth time,it was different. On October 25, 1944 flying from
   Mabalacat at 07:25 hrs. the plan was to search for the enemy in waters east of the
   Philippines.
   If this proved unsuccessful, the planes were to strike the enemy vessels in Leyte Gulf.
   Enemy fleet sighted at 10:10 hrs. The attack
   started... Three zeros landed the first came to a stop,out jumped Hiroyoshi Nishizawa one
   of the escorts. He had witnessed the first
   special attack mission. Each pilot had
   selected his target and at a banking signal
   from Seki, who was in the lead, their planes
   dived Seki's plane hit first at 10:45hrs and was followed by another which hit the same
   carrier. Smoke and flame from the two hits rose 1,000 meters into the air. The U.S. escort carrier St.Lo (CVE-63) was sunk this date by suicide plane.
   A third plane hit another carrier and set it afire, A fouth plane also hit another ship,
   the fifth plane failed to score a hit.
   Ships damaged by suicide attack, were the
   Kalinin Bay(CVE-68)the Kitkun Bay,(CVE-71)and
   the White Plains(CVE-66).
   

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