PARTNER

OBJECT ID

ddr-njpa-4-844 (J1112.002)

PARENT COLLECTION

Nippu Jiji Photograph Archive, "Japanese" Collection

DESCRIPTION

Caption on reverse [translation]: "From a teacher to a female pilot. Flight home in the clear October sky. When we lost a prominent Japanese female pilot, our first female seaplane pilot appeared suddenly! Her name is Kikuko Matsumoto, and she is 22 years old. She is from Saitama prefecture. After she graduated she became a public school teacher at Jimbo Elementary School. However, she threw away her navy blue hakama for her 'desire for the sky,' and in 1931 she entered pilot school in Suzaki, and in 1932 she studied hard and practiced flying seaplanes at Ando Pilot School in Aichi prefecture. She obtained a second-class seaplane pilot license on the 17th. She is planning to make a flight to her home city in the middle of October. On the 29th she visited her senior from the same home city, Shiouten [sp?], middle general of the Imperial Flight Society General Directors, and also Taira, general of the Department of the Navy's division of military diffusion, to ask for support.
The picture shows (1) our first female seaplane pilot, Miss Kikuko Matsumoto."

CONTRIBUTOR

Hawaii Times Photo Archives Foundation

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of the Hawaii Times Photo Archives Foundation

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