7 April 1945
Death of Seiichi Ito
Ito cancels the failed Ten-Go mission after catastrophic air attacks and dies aboard Yamato when the battleship sinks.
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Browse historical events and people recorded at East China Sea in Japan. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Ito cancels the failed Ten-Go mission after catastrophic air attacks and dies aboard Yamato when the battleship sinks.
Hara survives the sinking of Yahagi after repeated American carrier-aircraft attacks during Operation Ten-Go.
Aruga orders Yamato abandoned after uncontrollable flooding and remains aboard when the battleship capsizes and explodes.
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