Bansei Tokkō Peace Museum

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Bansei Tokkō Peace Museum is a war museum in Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture. Opened in 1993, the museum commemorates the 201 airmen from the Bansei Air Base (万世飛行場) who died in a kamikaze attack in the final months of the Pacific War. Hichiro Naemura, a flight instructor at the Bansei base in 1945, spearheaded the effort to establish this institution as a memorial to his fallen comrades.

1993  Wikidata
peace museum, military museum, aviation museum, Japan, 


Location: 31.4372, 130.295, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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