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🌴 Pacific Theater
The Kamikaze Who Missed on Purpose
On October 25, 1944, during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, Ensign Masajiro Miyashita flew his Zero toward the USS Kaloli, then pulled up at the last second and deliberately flew past the carrier without attacking, landing...