{{short description|Japanese World War II flying ace}} {{Infobox military person |name= Yoshimi Minami |birth_date=December 15, 1915 |death_date= {{death date and age|1944|11|25|1915|12|15}} |birth_place= Kagawa Prefecture, Japan |death_place= Second Philippine Republic |image=Yoshimi Minami.jpg |caption= |nickname= |allegiance= Empire of Japan |branch= 22x20px|border Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJN) |service_years= 1933–1944 |rank= Lieutenant |commands= |unit= 13th Air Group<br>Ōmura Air Group<br>12th Air Group<br>Saeki Air Group<br>Ōita Air Group<br>''Hiryū''<br>''Zuihō''<br>''Shōkaku''<br>601st Air Group<br>''Taihō''<br>653rd Air Group<br>Kasagi Unit |battles= {{tree list}} * Second Sino-Japanese War * World War II ** Attack on Pearl Harbor ** Indian Ocean raid ** Battle of the Coral Sea ** Battle of the Philippine Sea ** Battle of Leyte Gulf ** Battle of Leyte {{tree list/end}} |awards= |other_work= }}

{{nihongo|'''Yoshimi Minami'''|南 義美|Minami Yoshimi|December 15, 1915 &ndash; November 25, 1944}} was an ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Participating in many of the Pacific War battles and campaigns as a member of several units, Minami was officially credited with destroying 15 enemy aircraft. He was killed in November 1944 attempting to crash his aircraft into enemy ships off Leyte as a participant in Kamikaze operations.

==References== *{{cite book|last=Hata|first=Ikuhiko|authorlink=|author2=Yasuho Izawa|author3=Don Cyril Gorham (translator)|year=1989|chapter=|title=Japanese Naval Aces and Fighter Units in World War II|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|pages=|isbn=0-87021-315-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/japanesenavalace00hata}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Minami, Yoshimi}} Category:1915 births Category:1944 deaths Category:Kamikaze pilots Category:Japanese naval aviators Category:Japanese World War II flying aces Category:Imperial Japanese Navy personnel killed in World War II Category:Imperial Japanese Navy officers

{{Japan-mil-bio-stub}} Category:Military personnel from Kagawa Prefecture