On the day he moved to Kushira Navy Base from Tokushima in advance of a suicide mission, according to Nishimura's remembrance after the war and Sen's books and talks, after flight training all five members of the corps gathered next to their airplanes for a tea party with tools that they had on hand and adzuki-bean jellies from their rations.
徳島より串良海軍航空基地に移動する、即ち特攻作戦が近日中に行われるであろう日に、飛行訓練後、自分達が乗る飛行機の機体の傍で手持ちの道具と配給の羊羹で5人の隊員全員と茶会を催した事は、戦後西村の述懐・自身の著作や講演など広く知られる。