Contrary to expectations, this squadron disappeared toward the north. According to records, Second Lieutenants Tatsuo Imada, Iyoji Baba, Teruo Iwasa, Iwao Okura, Tetsuo Tanifuji, Koji Kitajima, Shinji Miyakawa, Toshikazu Hino, Itsuo Hatano, and Warrant Officer Kiyoshi Ninomiya were young men from 22 to 27 years old. It is thought that they all as training officers, who had trained and sent off many Special Attack Corps members, followed after the Special Attack Corps members who they had sent out on their own from this place.
The target was a group of Soviet tanks that was gathered near Chifeng.
This special attack squadron, in which Second Lieutenant Tanifuji's new wife Asako rode in a plane with her husband, launched a special (suicide) attack. In addition, a woman named Sumiko, whose relative owned Iyoya Ryokan (Inn), went in Second Lieutenant Okura's plane. In the panic state at war's end, it was an act in which they were compelled by strong feelings of people in this overseas territory. It provides a glimpse of one wartime tragedy.
The people who they had known near the airfield were sent afterward to Siberia and did not return to Japan until the end of 1948.
Now there is a monument erected on the grounds of Setagaya Kannon Temple, which is well-known for two tokko (special attack) cannon. The monument consoles the spirits of the squadron members who purely chose death.
