At Konoike Airfield, northeast of Tokyo, a dozen Mitsubishi G4M bombers were lined up wingtip to wingtip on the flight line. Konoike was an “Oka” (manned suicide missile) training center, and the bombers were the mother planes that carried and dropped the little rocket-propelled suicide craft. The G4Ms were fully fueled up, as they had been scheduled to fly a training exercise that morning. A squadron of Corsairs flew a low strafing run over the field and riddled the parked planes with .50-caliber incendiary fire. All twelve of the Mitsubishis were destroyed on the ground.
