W.W. II pilot dies
Minoru Genda, a pilot in Japan’s Imperial Navy who helped plan the attack on Pearl Harbour, died of heart failure yesterday, the forty-fourth anniversary of the end of World War 11, news reports said. He was 84. Genda, the chief of staff of the Navy’s First Air Fleet, helped Admiral Isbroku Yamamoto plan Japan’s attack on the United States Navy’s main Pacific base at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. After the war, Genda re-entered military service with the Air SelfDefence Force in 1954 and rose to become its chief of staff. —NZPA Reuter.
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