Battle Troop

Kajirô Yamamoto
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Katsuhiko Haida, Akitake Kôno
1944
Japan
Completed
English
1h 35m
Overview
Wartime film dealing with a Japanese torpedo bomber squadron at war.\n\nThe film opens with the Battle of Midway, The enemy carriers and ships are sunk with the IJN suffering minimal losses. However, the enemy has yet to surrender. Three IJN fliers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori), and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. The base gets attacked by Allied Aircraft but the Zeros always fight back. One Air-raid has P-38s shooting down natives and a U.S. Pilot shot down. The Pilot is extremely disrespectful and the fliers realize how the Americans \