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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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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