Kamikaze attack in Russia after Japan's surrender in WWII

Kamikaze attack in Russia after Japan's surrender in WWII

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Margarita Afanasieva in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Aug. 11, 2011, talks about a story she heard from her father regarding a Japanese fighter aircraft that was shot down during an attempted kamikaze attack on a Soviet oil tanker off Vladivostok port on Aug. 18, 1945, three days after Japan's surrender in World War II. Her father was an engineer on the tanker. (Kyodo)

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