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Yukio Seki
was a Japanese naval aviator of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. As a kamikaze pilot Lieutenant Seki led one of the three fighter groups of the second official kamikaze attack in World War II (the first official attack was led by Yoshiyasu Kuno on October 21, 1944, unsuccessfully). Seki's final action took place on October 25, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. He led a unit of five bomb-armed Mitsubishi Zero fighters, crash-diving their planes deliberately into ''St. Lo'', being the first kamikazes to sink an enemy ship.
== Early life ==
Yukio Seki was born 1921 in Iyo Saijō, a small town in Shikoku. His parents ran an antiques store specializing in tea ceremony utensils. At an early age, Seki was exposed to Naval training courses at his middle school and planned a career in the Navy. Since naval personnel were fully prepared to die in battle, and since Yukio was an only child, the family adopted a daughter nearly Yukio's age to carry on the family affairs.
In 1938 he tried to get to the War Academy of both the Imperial Navy and the ground forces. He was accepted to both of them and he chose navy, attending the Japanese Naval Academy at Eta-Jima. During this time his father died and his mother closed the antiques shop and lived alone. In 1941, one month before the Pearl Harbor attack, Seki graduated and was ordered to the Battleship ''Fusō''. In June of the same year he was promoted to Lieutenant. Soon he was transferred to the seaplane carrier ''Chitose''.〔''"The Sacred Warriors: Japan’s Suicide Legions"'', Early life details corroborated on pages 45–48.〕
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