Battle Troop 1944

Wartime film dealing with a Japanese torpedo bomber squadron at war.The film opens with the Battle of Midway, The enemy carriers and ships are sunk with the IJN suffering minimal losses. However, the enemy has yet to surrender. Three IJN fliers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori), and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. The base gets attacked by Allied Aircraft but the Zeros always fight back. One Air-raid has P-38s shooting down natives and a U.S. Pilot shot down. The Pilot is extremely disrespectful and the fliers realize how the Americans "really are". Kawakami and Murakami later join him as the base squadron is reinforced. An enemy task is spotted in the Philippine Sea. The enemy task force approaches the island and all three attack the fleet, killing themselves in the process. The Carrier Squad destroys the Main Task Force and the Land Squad attacks the Final Task Force. The fleet is sunk and the men have done their duty well.Good scenes of Nakajima Jill (Tenzan) torpedo bombers, and a scene involving a captured American flyer, played by Osman Yusuf (Mothra, King Kong vs. Godzilla, King Kong Escapes). The film takes place during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. In the Battle, The Japanese lost Taiho, Shokaku, and Hiyo. The Film shows Yorktown and Wasp-Class Carriers being sunk. This shows that the FIlm is blatant Propaganda. It also shows really hard how the film wants you to hate Americans.

Kôkichi Takada

Akitake Kôno

Masao Mishima

Masayuki Mori