Captured Japanese camouflaged airplane, New Guinea Japanese Aircraft MachineGunner Japanese soldiers standing with a variety of bombs
Japanese pilot in flight suit with cap and goggles. Japanese pilot in field uniform with sword. Japanese pilot in flight suit with parachute, cap & goggles.
1) Japanese dive bomber which has been shot down over Truk lagoon in July 1944 2) Pearl Harbor Japanese Torpedo Bomber 3) Japanese Airfield on New Guinea being attacked by allied forces using parafrag bombs in 1942. 4) The MXY-7 Navy Suicide Attacker Ohka was a manned flying bomb that was usually carried underneath a Mitsubishi G4M2e "Betty" Model 24J bomber to within range of its target; on release, the pilot would first glide towards the target and when close enough he would fire the Ohka's three solid-fuel rockets, one at a time or in unison, and fly the missile towards the ship that he intended to destroy. 5) Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
Aichi D3A Type 99 Kanbaku dive bombers from either the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carriers Shokaku or Zuikaku on their way to attack United States Navy ships on May 7, 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea. This photo is probably from the morning attack on the fleet oiler Neosho and destroyer Sims but could be from the unsuccessful afternoon mission to locate and attack the US Navy aircraft carriers Yorktown and Lexington.
1) 1945 Okinawa 2) 1945 Okinawa, Japanese G4M Betty bomber of Surrender Delegation 3) USMC 1945 Okinawa, sitting on wrecked Japanese Airplane 4) Japanese Kamikaze Pilots Last Picture
Japanese Zero pilot Hiroyoshi Nishizawa was possibly the top scoring Ace in the Imperial Japanese Navy in WWII. He claimed his 87 aerial victories over four years of combat. He shot down all kinds of planes, and had a provocative attitude that led him to perform aerobatics over an enemy airfield with two wingmen, resulting in a written invitation from the US Navy to return for “the rest of the party"! Nishizawa’s unique fighting style kept him from being shot down while decimating enemy fighter formations. He was noted for performing spectacular, high G force maneuvers in random patterns, which had “never been seen in Japanese air combat.” He avoided death as a fighter pilot, but in a somewhat anti-climactic ending was killed when a bomber transporting him was shot down.
странно, встречал про него 36 побед. неужели столько неподтверждённых? Tetsuzo Iwamoto считается лучшим с 80 победами
1) Captured Japanese Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, a rocket powered kamikaze attack plane, nicknamed "Baka" by US sailors. 2) Downed Ki-21 bomber on Okinawa 3) Japanese army pilot
1) 1940s WWII USMC, Marines wrecked Japanese airplane, New Georgia 2) 1944 GI & Wrecked Japanese Zero, Hollandia 3) 1940s WWII USMC, Marines wrecked Japanese airplane tail No 336, New Georgia 4) 1940s WWII USMC, Marines sitting on wrecked Japanese airplane, New Georgia
USS Essex exploding after being struck by Lt. Yoshinori Yamaguchi's special attack D4Y3 Model 33 aircraft, at 12:56 hours on 25 Nov 1944
Сабуро Сакаи. Если не ошибаюсь еще в Китае. Читал его книгу впечатлила его схватка когда он получил рану головы.
