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Operation Kikusui VIII took place between 28 and 29 May, and consisted of 217 Navy planes and 71 Army planes (of which 51 Navy planes and 57 Army planes were kamikazes). Due to reduced airstrike capabilities on part of the Japanese military, achievements were small, only sinking 1 destroyer, the USS Drexler and damaging several ships.
Kamikaze Special Attack Group, Kikusui Corps, Suisei Unit No. 2 (神風特別攻撃隊 菊水部隊 第二彗星隊,, Kamikaze Tokubetsu Kōgekitai, Kikusui Butai, Dai 2 Suisei-tai) Original unit; 701st NAG (311th FS, 5th AS, 103rd AS, 105th AS)
Kikusui may refer to: Kikusui, Kumamoto , a former town in Japan Operation Kikusui ("Floating Chrysanthemum"), a series of ten large kamikaze suicide raids carried out by Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army aircraft against Allied ships off Okinawa in 1945
On May 11, the Imperial Japanese Navy carried out a massive kamikaze mission called Kikusui Rokugi Sakusen (Operation Kikusui "Floating Chrysanthemums" No. 6). On the early morning, pilots of the Tokkōtai suicide squadrons took off from their bases; among those pilots, there was Kiyoshi Ogawa, a member of the Dai-nana Showa-tai Squadron ...
A kamikaze aircraft crashes into a US warship in May 1945. Kamikaze (神風, pronounced [kamiꜜkaze]; ' divine wind ' [1] or ' spirit wind '), officially Shinpū Tokubetsu Kōgekitai (神風特別攻撃隊, ' Divine Wind Special Attack Unit '), were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in ...
The Kikusui Sho (in Japanese: 菊水賞), is a race for three-year-old stallions from Hyōgo Prefecture in the Hyogo Horse Racing Association. Race details.
Kikusui (菊水町, Kikusui-machi) was a town located in Tamana District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 2005, the town had an estimated population of 6,523 and a density of 170 persons per km 2. The total area was 38.27 km 2.
Kikusui Station (菊水駅) is a Sapporo Municipal Subway station in Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Its station number is T11. Platforms. 1