A Sunken Airplane
Every year around this time (Hiroshima/Nagasaki/Surrender anniversaries), Japanese news programs tend to have a lot of war-related news. Here’s a report from a couple days ago about some newly-released footage of a Japanese military plane that lies beneath the water in Lake Towada:
The training plane crashed into the lake during a training mission in 1943. The plane had been carrying 4 young soldiers. Only one of them survived the crash.
The mission had been launched from a nearby airbase. Few traces of it now remain, but until a few decades ago, there were rather large concrete structures remaining in the area. A local man told the reporter that the base had been used to train suicide pilots during the final days of the war.
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