An annual memorial service for a dozen young American soldiers and a Japanese pilot who died in two separate aircraft accidents just before and after the end of World War II will resume at a small stone monument erected for them in the town of Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture, at the end of August after being canceled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.Over time, local residents had all but forgotten the two accidents, which occurred when the planes came down on a local mountainside. But in the autumn of 1987, they came to fresh light when local historian Hiroshi Kudo, 67, came across …READ FULL ARTICLE
