Portrait of the Imperial Japanese Navy fighter pilot Kazuo Tsunoda (角 田 和 男, 1918 – 2013) during World War II in the Pacific theater of operations.
Kazuo Tsunoda was a veteran of the Sino-Japanese War, and from May 1942 to May 1943 he participated in the Battle of Guadalcanal and air battles over the Solomon Islands with the 2nd and 582nd Air Groups.
In November 1944, Tsunoda volunteered for the Special Attacks Corps, becoming a kamikaze pilot. However, his sorties in search of American ships were unsuccessful and he could not make his last attack.
The Japanese pilot survived until the end of the war, having shot down nine enemy aircraft in his combat account.
The photo source: en.wikipedia.org.
Location: Pacific Ocean
Photo time: 1945