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    Takijirō Ōnishi (大西 瀧治郎, Ōnishi Takijirō, 2 June 1891 – 16 August 1945) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II who came to be...
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  • Sukeban Deka III Takijirō Ōnishi (大西 瀧治郎, 1891–1945), admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, known as the father of the kamikaze Junko Onishi (swimmer) (大西...
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    graduated in 1912, ranked 21st out of 144 cadets. His classmates included Takijirō Ōnishi and Matome Ugaki. As an ensign, he served on the cruiser Chikuma and...
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    increasing attacks by the Americans. During this time, Vice Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi had been making plans for the first kamikaze attack, and Lieutenant...
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    Independence-class light carriers Independence and Cabot. Meanwhile, Vice Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi directed three waves of aircraft from his First Air Fleet based on...
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    to study Pearl Harbor and to draw up an operational plan. Admiral Takijiro Onishi gathered together all the relevant facts that could be found about...
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    forces seemed impossible. The 1st Air Fleet commandant, Vice Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi, decided to form a suicide offensive force, the Special Attack Unit...
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    (1944) Mitsuru Ushijima (1945) Isamu Chō (1945) Korechika Anami (1945) Takijirō Ōnishi (1945) Chikahiko Koizumi (1945) Yukio Mishima (1970) Masakatsu Morita...
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    work he met the vice admiral and later founder of the Kamikaze units Takijirō Ōnishi, with whom he became friends.[citation needed] From 1939 to 1941 he...
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    approximately 100 aircraft that were already there under Vice Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi, who became his chief of staff. In January 1945, the 2nd Air Fleet...
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    Vice Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff, Vice Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi, predicted up to 20 million Japanese deaths. The Americans were alarmed...
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    (1891–1984) 7 August 1944 20 October 1944 74 days 3 Ōnishi, TakijirōVice Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi 大西 瀧治郎 (1891–1945) 20 October 1944 10 May 1945 202 days...
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    Admiral Takijiro Onishi, chief of staff of the Eleventh Air Fleet, to study the technical feasibility of an attack against the American base. Onishi gathered...
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  • Imperial Japan who were reported to have committed harakiri, such as Takijiro Onishi, the admiral who devised the kamikaze tactic. The most notable example...
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    the Naval General Staff Toyoda, and Foreign Minister Togo, Admiral Takijiro Onishi stated, "If we are prepared to sacrifice 20 million Japanese lives...
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  • Chuichi Hara Commander, 5th Carrier Division Tōru Abe Rear Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi Chief of Staff, 11th Air Fleet Shunichi Nakamura Captain Kameto "Gandhi"...
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  • 1891 – Thurman Arnold, American lawyer and judge (d. 1969) 1891 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral and pilot (d. 1945) 1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German...
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    Cheng Liu Zhi Zhou Zhirou Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni Hajime Sugiyama Takijirō Ōnishi Units involved  Republic of China Air Force 41st and 42nd Anti-Aircraft...
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  • Matome Ugaki, Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. 1890) August 16 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (ritual suicide) (b. 1891) August 18 Subhas Chandra...
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    and became an integral part of strategy with Okinawa. Vice Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi addressed the first kamikaze (suicide attack) unit, telling them that...
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  • Kobayashi as Hideki Tōjō Yūzō Kayama as Gorō Arai Tatsuya Mihashi as Takijirō Ōnishi Seiji Miyaguchi as Shigenori Tōgō Akira Kubo as Takami Ichirō Nakatani...
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    Battle of Yongjiazhen began as part of the Chinese Civil War. Died: Takijirō Ōnishi, 54, Japanese admiral (seppuku) Indonesia declared her independence...
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    in the immediate wake of the Formosa Air Battle, when Vice Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi replaced Vice Admiral Kimpei Teraoka as leader of the IJN's 1st Air...
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  • Albright, American archeologist, Biblical scholar (d. 1971) June 2 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (d. 1945) June 4 – Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician...
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  • Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911) 1945 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891) 1948 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player...
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    Tokugawa Iemitsu Den Kenjirō, 8th Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan Takijirō Ōnishi, World War II IJN admiral, "the father of the kamikaze" Tamba city...
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    the 1st Air Fleet (2nd generation) Commander in Chief, Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi. Many younger aviators had been ordered to fly Kamikaze sorties daily...
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  • Kamikaze Ā Kessen Kōkūtai (あゝ決戦航空隊) Kosaku Yamashita Drama. Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi 1974 Poland Heads Full of Stars Głowy pełne gwiazd Janusz Kondratiuk...
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  • Staff Hirohito, Emperor of Japan Hideyoshi Obata, General on Saipan Takijirō Ōnishi, Admiral of the tokkōtai (Kamikaze) squadrons Hiroshi Ōshima, General...
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  • Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi decided to form a suicide attack force, the Special Attack Unit. In a meeting at Mabalacat, on 19 October 1944, Onishi told officers...
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