May 4, 2023 · A roadside memorial near Clark’s Mabalacat gate reminds visitors that pilots on suicide missions took off nearby from “the very first Japanese Kamikaze Airfield,” Mabalacat East.

Various wartime photos displayed along the walls show Filipino-Japanese friendships, kamikaze pilots at Philippine air bases such as Mabalacat and Nichols, American ships with heavy smoke rising after kamikaze hits, and kamikaze pilots at Japanese mainland bases …

Oct 25, 2019 · The town of Mabalacat on Luzon Island in the Philippines unveiled a life-sized kamikaze pilot statue on October 25, 2004. The statue atop a tall pedestal stands in a small lot in front of a wall that shows the Japanese rising sun flag on its …

During the 1970s and 1980s, Dizon gathered information about kamikaze pilots in the Philippines and collected Japanese military weapons and equipment that later became part of exhibits displayed in the Dizon Kamikaze Museum, located in a large room at his home in Angeles City.

Several Imperial Army pilots belonging to the 31st Fighter Squadron on the Philippine island of Negros decided on their own to strap 100kg bombs to two of their aircraft. Taking off just before dawn, First Lieutenant Takeshi Kosai and the second pilot vanished after takeoff.

Kamikaze Pilot statue: Selective memory and reconciliation. The Philippines hosts several Japanese shrines and monuments, found in areas like Laguna and Pampanga, including the Kamikaze Pilot statue in Mabalacat [Fig. 1].

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The museum features Dizon’s collection of an original kamikaze pilot uniform, a special steel sword given only to kamikaze volunteers, and portraits of the first five kamikaze pilots killed in suicide attacks.

Oct 28, 2004 · Tourism officer Guy Hilbero, far left, supervises workers as they prepare to install a life-size statue of an unnamed ``kamikaze'' pilot at the Japanese war memorial in Mabalacat, the Philippines, last Sunday.

It shows Lt Yukio Seki, considered as the world’s first official human bomb who led the first kamikaze raid in October 1944. The fiberglass statue represents thousands of Japanese suicide pilots who damaged or sunk Allied ships from October 1944 to August 1945.