MABALACAT, Philippines (Kyodo) -- Around 150 people from the Philippines and Japan attended a ceremony held Friday in Mabalacat on Luzon island to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the first suicide air attack conducted by Japanese forces against U.S. warships during World War II.
The airplanes of the Imperial Japanese Navy's kamikaze special attack unit took off from a Mabalacat airfield and hit American warships in Leyte Gulf in the central part of the Philippines on Oct. 25, 1944, sinking one of the warships.
