Srinagar Air Force station after taking a direct hit of YiHa-III Kamikaze 🚀 🇵🇰 Video Date: 10th May 2025 during Operation Bunyanum Marsoos | Pakistan Strategic Forum

A Japanese World War II naval aviator—the rare survivor of a kamikaze mission because he was shot down and rescued by the crew of a U.S. destroyer 50 years ago—spoke with Naval History Editor Fred L. Schultz at the U.S. Naval Institute headquarters. Mr. Hasegawa is the current President of the 80-year-old Rengo Company, Ltd., an international corrugated packing producer with more than 4,000 employees. On 25 May 1945, he was a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Japanese Special Naval Attack Corps,