Matome Ugaki standing before his special attack aircraft, 15 Aug 1945

Caption     Matome Ugaki standing before his special attack aircraft, 15 Aug 1945 ww2dbase
Photographer    Unknown
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Photo Size 1,381 x 988 pixels
Photos on Same Day 15 Aug 1945
Added By C. Peter Chen
Licensing  This work originating in Japan is in the public domain. According to Article 23 of the 1899 Copyright Act of Japan and Article 2 of Supplemental Provisions of Copyright Act of 1970, a work is in the public domain if it was created or published before 1 Jan 1957.

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1. lang franz says:
1 Nov 2009 06:10:12 AM

Great article , very interessant story. In france the country where I'm from we don't study a lot war in the pacific focusing maybe too much on what happend in our contry so thanks for your research (and please excuse my poor english). I have a question for you:
Do you know form where did Ugaki took off for this last mission?
I love to know that
thanks in advance
Franz Lang

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