[the times of the uk]
Masamitsu Yoshioka obituary: Japanese airman in Pearl Harbor attack
Navigator and bombardier thought to be the last to have taken part in the
"day of infamy" attack in December 1941
Masamitsu Yoshioka, a 23-year-old navigator and bombardier, took off from
the Japanese aircraft carrier Soryu in a Nakajima B5N2, better known as a
"Kate", before dawn on December 7, 1941.
Armed with a single 800kg torpedo he, his pilot and a rear gunner flew
nearly two hours and 250 miles eastwards across the Pacific until they
reached the US naval port of Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before
8am. Other Japanese warplanes had arrived first, and they found the US
Pacific Fleet "all wrapped in black smoke"
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https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/masamitsu-yoshioka-6rlpxbgkf
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