The Archive · 1940

Of Empire Observed

Tokyo, Jan. 13. Tlanes zoomed over Tsuchiura in Ibaraki Prefecture this morning ar the 11th Combined Naval Flying Corps staged an aerial review in commemoration of the approaching 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Empire.

From a plane high above the Kasumigaura aerodrome, Rear Admiral Rokuro Hone, Commander of the Corps, reviewed the aerial parade.

Scores of seaplanes participated in the aerial review, spread out over a distance of more than six kilometres in the air. The flight commander was Captain Shinnosuke Muneyuki.

The 11th Combined Naval Flying Corps has been the "cradle" for many of the Japanese fliers now active on China fronts—Domei, Still Underground

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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