List of Imperial Japanese Navy air-to-surface special attack units

This article handles air-to-surface special attack units by Action Order only. Therefore, this article does not handles other suicide attack group the Shinki Special Attack Force (神亀特別攻撃隊), Shinchō Special Attack Force (神潮特別攻撃隊), Shin'yo Group (震洋隊), and other voluntary special/suicide attacks.

Air unit names in this article.
Japanese military unit name has various translations in en.Wikipedia. This article uses the following side-by-side translations, because avoid confusions.
Japanese (Kanji) Rōmaji English (Use in this article) Example
航空艦隊 Kōkū Kantai Air Fleet 第一航空艦隊 (Dai 1 Kōkū Kantai) is 1st Air Fleet.
航空戦隊 Kōkū Sentai Air Flotilla 第二十五航空戦隊 (Dai 25 Kōkū Sentai) is 25th Air Flotilla.
Carrier Division 第一航空戦隊 (Dai 1 Kōkū Sentai) is 1st Carrier Division.
聯合航空隊 Rengō Kōkūtai Combined Air Group (CAG) 第十一聯合航空隊 (Dai 11 Rengō Kōkūtai) is 11th Combined Air Group.
海軍航空隊 Kaigun Kōkūtai Naval Air Group (NAG) 第二〇一海軍航空隊 (Dai Futa-Maru-Ichi Kaigun Kōkūtai) is 201st Naval Air Group.
航空隊 Kōkūtai Air Group (AG) 第一二航空隊 (Dai 12 Kōkūtai) is 12th Air Group.
戦闘飛行隊 Sentō Hikōtai Fighter Squadron (FS) 戦闘第三〇一飛行隊 (Sentō Dai 301 Hikōtai) is 301st Fighter Squadron.
攻撃飛行隊 Kōgeki Hikōtai Attack Squadron (AS) 攻撃第一飛行隊 (Kōgeki Dai 1 Hikōtai) is 1st Attack Squadron.
偵察飛行隊 Teisatsu Hikōtai Reconnaissance Squadron (RS) 偵察第一三一飛行隊 (Teisatsu Dai 131 Hikōtai) is 131st Reconnaissance Squadron.

Kamikaze Special Attack Group

1st Kamikaze Special Attack Group

Yamato Unit hit to USS Suwannee, 26 October 1944.

2nd Kamikaze Special Attack Group

D4Y3 "Judy" Chū 16 of Chūyū Unit, 27 or 29 October 1944.

3rd Kamikaze Special Attack Group

4th Kamikaze Special Attack Group

Yokosuka D4Y3 "Judy" 701-17 of Katori Unit, 25 November 1944.

5th Kamikaze Special Attack Group

Yokosuka P1Y1 "Frances" 763-29 of Kusanagi Unit No. 1, 15 December 1944.

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Kongō Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Niitaka Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Taigi Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Tsukuba Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Shichisei Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Shinken Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Shōwa Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Hachiman Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Shirasagi Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Seitō Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Seiki Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Kusanagi Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Mitate Unit"

Yokosuka P1Y1 "Frances" 706-73 of Mitate Unit No. 6, Summer 1945.
Mitsubishi G4M3 "Betty" 3-Ha (back row center) of Mitate Unit No. 6, October 1945.

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Ginga Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Sakigake Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Kotohira Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Tokushima-Shiragiku Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Ryūko Unit"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Kikusui Corps"

Kamikaze Special Attack Group "Jinrai Corps"

Other Kamikazes

Other Special Attack Unit

Jinmu Special Attack Group

Others

See also

Bibliography

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