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Japan. Postcard “Student of the Tokyo Army Aviation School”, propaganda postcard from the Army Aviation Headquarters, 1940.
The Tokyo Army Aviation School, founded in 1937, aimed to train the so-called “young pilots,” teenagers aged 15 to 17, who received basic flight education before formally enlisting in the army and continuing their training at advanced flying schools. Near this institution was the Army Flight School of Kumagaya, one of the main advanced training academies of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service.
Many of these pilot trainees would later become the famous Kamikaze pilots during the final stages of the Second World War.
