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Common abbreviations in use of the US military communication.
Guide to understand the message type.
Compiled by the communication unit of 16th Army (in the Southern Pacific) of Imperial Japanese Army on July 5th, 1944.

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Source: JACAR reference code:

C15120277500
C15120277600
C15120277700
C15120277800
C15120277900
C15120278000
C15120278100
C15120278200
C15120279700
 
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Another British Japanese soldier, Jasper Gillingham aka Jasper Inoue (1909- ) born to British father and Japanese mother.

He served in the China front as an IJA soldier. After the war was over, he and his comrades had been captured by Soviet troops to spend a few years in Siberia. According to his book "Blue-eyed Japanese Soldier" written in 2005, as it was not difficult for him to speak Russian, he soon became leader of a labor camp and this contributed to making many Japanese best friends for the rest of his life.

With his father Sir Gillingham.
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Jasper - 3rd from left in the rear row.
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Jasper circa 2005.
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Source: 青い目の日本兵
 
Tomoji Sasaki (1924-2016).
A former Kamikaze pilot as IJA corporal.

He is a legendary Kamikaze pilot who refused the suicide attack but flew 9 times to attack and returned 9 times alive in the Philippines during ww2. In 2015, historian Shoji Kokami knew Sasaki was still alive on the bed of a local hospital and met him to ask a question which had been a big mystery for him for a long time - why he could refuse to die as a Kamikaze attacker when he could have been expected to do so at the time.

Sasaki answered "It was simple. Our base commander wanted me to die like that to become a national hero every time I flew because it was also what Imperial GHQ wanted me but my senior officer whom I respected very much told me to fight as a bomber pilot before I die. He told same to all his men but our commander's pressure was not small. All had died except me as a result."

Sasaki circa 1944 and 2016
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Source: Youtube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AsYZ9AlEvI)

Sasaki's Ki-48 in the Philippines circa 1944.
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Source: 『不死身の特攻兵』92歳の軍神、鴻上尚史に語る──命令無視で生還できた理由 講談社 今日のおすすめ
 
In the midnight of May 19-20, 1938, two Chinese bombers Martin B-10 entered the Kyusyu Island of Japan from the west coast Amakusa and flew away to the eastern sea of the island through Nobeoka leaving many propaganda leaflets in the central mountain area. Japanese side understood it a joke by Chiang Kai-shek.

On the following day, Chiang proudly announced to the world - "Our brave bomber pilots succeeded to bomb the Japanese major cities in Kyusyu like Nagasaki and Sasebo with our paper bombs peacefully."

Actual course was far south from Nagasaki and Sasebo.

Chinese Martin B-10
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Source: Martin B-10 Chinese Air Force

and pilots.
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Source: http://121.205.67.245:81/cache/7766432D0B69E5BB8D0447D754ACD678.pdf
 
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