August 2015, I accompanied Irene Herrera to assist on these interview shoots. I manned one of the cameras, and explained procedures to the two ex-pilots. Speaking with older generations is always a challenge in foreign languges if speaking styles have changed over time. Ms Herrera and I worked together to conduct powerful interviews.
‘It sounds strange, but we were congratulating each other for being selected’ for the special suicide attack unit. ‘When I knew we had lost the war ... the thought going through my mind was I had missed my chance to die ... and be remembered in infinite glory.’ Two Japanese veterans share memories of the second world war and the aftermath of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima.
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