The Chiran Tokko Museum (知覧特攻平和会館, Chiran Tokkō Heiwa Kaikan) jelly archives, letters and possessions of the individuals from the extraordinary assault corps, likewise referred to in English as "kamikaze pilots". It is situated on the site of an airbase from where the pilots took off for their last missions. 

          Towards the end of World War 2, the Japanese military turned to suicide assaults, in which pilots would purposely fly their planes into adversary warships. It was trusted that these assaults would repulse the Allied Forces simply like the "celestial winds" (kamikaze) scattered Mongolian attack strengths in the thirteenth century. The formal name for these suicide assault units was Tokko-tai.

           The Chiran Tokko Museum (知覧特攻平和会館, Chiran Tokkō Heiwa Kaikan) jelly archives, letters and possessions of the individuals from the extraordinary assault corps, likewise referred to in English as "kamikaze pilots". It is situated on the site of an airbase from where the pilots took off for their last missions. 

          Towards the end of World War 2, the Japanese military turned to suicide assaults, in which pilots would purposely fly their planes into adversary warships. It was trusted that these assaults would repulse the Allied Forces simply like the "celestial winds" (kamikaze) scattered Mongolian attack strengths in the thirteenth century. The formal name for these suicide assault units was Tokko-tai (exceptiona)