Bansei_Tokkō_Peace_Museum

Bansei Tokkō Peace Museum

Bansei Tokkō Peace Museum

Building in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Bansei Tokkō Peace Museum (万世特攻平和祈念館, Bansei Tokkō Heiwa Kinenkan) is a war museum in Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture. Opened in 1993, the museum commemorates the 201 airmen from the Bansei Air Base (万世飛行場) who died in a kamikaze attack in the final months of the Pacific War.[1][2][3] Hichiro Naemura, a flight instructor at the Bansei base in 1945, spearheaded the effort to establish this institution as a memorial to his fallen comrades.[4]

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  1. [1]
    "Bansei Tokko Peace Museum". Wesleyan University. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
  2. [2]
    "万世特攻平和祈念館" [Bansei Tokko Peace Museum]. Minamisatsuma City. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
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    "万世特攻平和祈念館" [Bansei Tokko Peace Museum]. Kagoshima Prefecture. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
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    Bansei Tokko Peace Museum Retrieved on 7 July 2016.


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