List of Imperial Japanese Navy air-to-surface special attack units
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This article handles air-to-surface special attack units by Action Order only. Therefore, this article does not handle other suicide attack groups using Ko-hyoteki, Kaiten or Shinyo (suicide boat) and other voluntary special/suicide attack forces.
- Air unit names in this article.
- Japanese military unit names have various translations on en.Wikipedia. This article uses the following side-by-side translations to avoid confusion.
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Japanese (Kanji) | Rōmaji | English (Use in this article) | Example |
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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. |
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