Photos of suicide torpedo pilots shown at memorial museum

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The photos of 145 "Kaiten" torpedo pilots and maintenance crew members who died during World War II are put on the walls of the Kaiten Memorial Museum on Ozushima Island in Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on June 24, 2014.

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