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@Drinking Sake was always with Ito. He was really a wonderful man.

Kawakubo, you were the real soldier.

@The picture was taken between their trainings.

Front from the left, Sub-lieutenant Kobayashi, Sub-lieutenant Ito, Sub-lieutenant Kawakubo
Back from the left, Sub-lieutenant Hashiguchi, Sub-lieutenant Kuzumi, Sub-lieutenant Kawai

Sub-lieutenant Kawakubo sortied on December 25, boarding submarine I-47 as a Kaiten pilot of Kaiten Group "Kongo."
Sub-lieutenant Ito sortied on December 30, boarding submarine I-53 as a Kaiten pilot of Kaiten Group "Kongo."
Both of them died in the Kaiten mission.

<The sortie of Kaiten Group "Kongo", Submarine I-47>.

<The sortie of Kaiten Group "Kongo", Submarine I-53>


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