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Imperial Japanese Army Aviation An-2 Colt with Hinomaru on the fin???, Just out of movie the Unit 731 during the sino-japanese war.
Perhaps the movie producer appeared to have failed to find it proper transport plane to make the movie.
Perhaps the movie producer appeared to have failed to find it proper transport plane to make the movie.
Historic tank completes trip home to Japan thanks to Fredericksburg museum
The National Museum of the Pacific War, which is located in Fredericksburg, helped return a World War II-era tank to Japan following an exchange for an authentic replica of the Type 95 Ha-Go Light …
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Transport Kinugawa Maru beached and sunk on the Guadalcanal shore, in November 1943. She had been sunk by U.S. aircraft on 15 November 1942, while attempting to deliver men and supplies to Japanese forces holding the northern part of the island. Savo Island is in the distance.
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Ground crew with a Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien (Allied code name "Tony") at an unidentified airfield. This aircraft was probably assigned to the 244th Squadron. Note the (at least) 12 "kill" markings below the cockpit. 1943-45
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Paratroopers of the Kaoru Airborne Raiding Detachment sit inside an L2D aircraft. The figure in the aisle wearing glasses has been identified as 2nd Lieutenant Kaku Takashi.
This photograph was taken just before the detachment’s only mission, Operation Gi, at Leyte.
What was planned was an attack on the North Burauen and South Burauen runways inside the US beachhead on Leyte. The four L2D used were to land on the runways dislodge the 40 specially trained guerilla fighters, who would then raise holy hell and then disappear into the surrounding terrain and conduct more "regular" guerilla attacks while perhaps linking up with Japanese defenders.
The attack lifted off from an airfield near Manila as planned, on November 26th, 1944... and coordination between the four L2Ds was more or less lost. Of the four, only one of them came close to the target runways but was shot down by AAA.
The other three made it to the vicinity of other runways before crash landing; of the 30 or so guerillas, about 25 survived the subsequent American response to the planes and disappeared into the jungles. They did in fact link up with Japanese troops and joined the defense as regular infantry.
As an example of what could have occurred, a similar raid on Yontan airfield at Okinawa surprised the American personnel there. The 10 or so attackers whose aircraft reached the target were relatively successful, destroying nine fighters damaging another 26, and destroying 70000 gallons of fuel before nearby Marines caught up with them in the morning.
Getting back to the men in the photo above, everybody who isn't an officer are actually Formosa natives, who the Japanese considered excellent jungle fighters.
This photograph was taken just before the detachment’s only mission, Operation Gi, at Leyte.
What was planned was an attack on the North Burauen and South Burauen runways inside the US beachhead on Leyte. The four L2D used were to land on the runways dislodge the 40 specially trained guerilla fighters, who would then raise holy hell and then disappear into the surrounding terrain and conduct more "regular" guerilla attacks while perhaps linking up with Japanese defenders.
The attack lifted off from an airfield near Manila as planned, on November 26th, 1944... and coordination between the four L2Ds was more or less lost. Of the four, only one of them came close to the target runways but was shot down by AAA.
The other three made it to the vicinity of other runways before crash landing; of the 30 or so guerillas, about 25 survived the subsequent American response to the planes and disappeared into the jungles. They did in fact link up with Japanese troops and joined the defense as regular infantry.
As an example of what could have occurred, a similar raid on Yontan airfield at Okinawa surprised the American personnel there. The 10 or so attackers whose aircraft reached the target were relatively successful, destroying nine fighters damaging another 26, and destroying 70000 gallons of fuel before nearby Marines caught up with them in the morning.
Getting back to the men in the photo above, everybody who isn't an officer are actually Formosa natives, who the Japanese considered excellent jungle fighters.
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Japanese aircraft.
"Kikka" jet
Those lights had to attract every mosquito in a 50 mile radius!
"Kikka" jet
Those lights had to attract every mosquito in a 50 mile radius!
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More aircraft pics - most with captions.
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More WW2 aircraft.
Notice the propellers have been removed. This was common practice at the time to prevent last minute kamikaze events.
Notice the propellers have been removed. This was common practice at the time to prevent last minute kamikaze events.
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