The Kamikaze and “Mighty Moe.”
Those familiar with World War Two history (or “Greater East
Asia War” for the Pacific theater) are aware of the role the battleship USS
Missouri played. The battleship
nicknamed “Mighty Moe” or “Big Moe,” on 2 September, 1945 was in Tokyo Bay
where the Japanese surrender was signed ending the War in the Pacific and
concluding World War Two.
Five months prior to the surrender the USS Missouri was in
the waters off Okinawa during the battle for Okinawa (April 1, to June 22,
1945). During this fierce battle on 12
April, 1945 a Kamikaze piolet named Setsuo Ishino (石野節夫) flew his Mitsubishi A6M Zero “Zeke”
onto the deck of the Missouri. The
wreckage was strewn across the battleship’s deck.
The crew was in the process of throwing the wreakage overboard
when they discovered the partial remains of the Kamikaze piolet Setsuo
Ishino (石野節夫). They were going to toss his remains overboard
when Captain William M. Callaghan ordered them not to discard the piolet’s
remains overboard. He ordered a proper
burial at sea for a “fellow warrior.”
A sailor sewn together a Japanese flag to be respectfully displayed
over the canvas bag with the piolet’s remains within. Before sliding the remains ceremoniously
overboard as is a Navy tradition, a Christian minister said a few words, then a
gun salute for the “fellow warrior.” The
ship’s Chaplin Roland Faulk said, “We commit his body to the deep.”
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