Air-Force.ca's Fallen Comrades

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old



If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air, they would be shot down. That's sad...Too sad...To let the young men die beautifully, that's what Tokko is. To give beautiful death, that's called sympathy.

- Admiral Takijiro Onishi (Note: Tokko means suicidal attack in Japanese)

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Today in Military History

July 6



1915:

The British Government accepts an offer of an Imperial Contingent from South Africa


1917:

Second reading of the Conscription Bill in Canada - carried


1923:

The USSR formally constituted




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