@We had shared our joys and sorrows since the third grade at Naval Academy.
You were really great in guiding students.
Thinking about the death of you, the person who's always honest and with great royalty, made me feel a pain in my heart, nothing but indignation.

The picture was taken between their trainings.

Thinking about his dead classmate, Sub-lieutenant Kuzumi.
(Sitting right in the picture above. He sortied, boarding Submarine I-53 as a Kaiten pilot of Kaiten Group "Kongo" and died in the Kaiten mission on January 12, 1945.) (Sitting left is Sub-lieutenant Kawai)

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


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