The Tachiarai Army Flight School opened in 1940 and trained many pilots who took part in kamikaze operations in the last year of the war. The Tachiarai Flight School had a branch school in Chiran (Kagoshima Prefecture), where many Army pilots departed to make suicide attacks on the American fleet near Okinawa. Operations at Tachiarai came to an end when American B-29s destroyed the base on March 27, 1945.
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第一期 - 1st class
特別操縦習生 - Special Pilot Trainee
太刀洗 - Tachiarai
陸軍飛行學校 - Army Flight School
大邱教育隊 - Daegu Education Corps
Marked 純銀 - pure silver.