108 THE WIDENING WAR 1942
Ready for battle
Cadets from the Imperial Naval Academy,
Etajima, near Hiroshima, undergo training
in September 1941. They were probably
prospective members of the Kaigun Tokubetsu
Rikusentai—the Japanese equivalent
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