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Japanese navy Seaplane pilots, New Guinea 1943.
The plane in the background looks like a Mitsubishi F1M (Allied reporting name "Pete") which was a reconnaissance floatplane. It was the last biplane type of the Imperial Japanese Navy, with 944 built between 1936 and 1944. The Navy designation was "Type Zero Observation Seaplane" .
The plane in the background looks like a Mitsubishi F1M (Allied reporting name "Pete") which was a reconnaissance floatplane. It was the last biplane type of the Imperial Japanese Navy, with 944 built between 1936 and 1944. The Navy designation was "Type Zero Observation Seaplane" .
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The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malay (Hawai Mare oki kaisen).
This Imperial propaganda film is a 1942 black-and-white Japanese war movie directed by Kajiro Yamamoto. On this picture, Japanese special effects staff put the finishing touches on battleship row on their huge scale model of Pearl Harbor.
This Imperial propaganda film is a 1942 black-and-white Japanese war movie directed by Kajiro Yamamoto. On this picture, Japanese special effects staff put the finishing touches on battleship row on their huge scale model of Pearl Harbor.
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Guam, September 5th 1945.
Part of 2,600 Japanese POWs, who comprised the enemy garrison of Rota, are lined up in a prisoner of war stockade on Guam, in the Marianas. Rota, formely Sarpan, is approximately 40 nautical miles North-Northeast of Guam.
Part of 2,600 Japanese POWs, who comprised the enemy garrison of Rota, are lined up in a prisoner of war stockade on Guam, in the Marianas. Rota, formely Sarpan, is approximately 40 nautical miles North-Northeast of Guam.
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Second Sino-Japanese War. Shanghai, China. 1937. American photojournalist Harrison Forman films troops of the Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces (SNLF).
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"Sadaaki Akamatsu did not correspond to the prototype of the Japanese officer, lover of order, the good customs and the fierce samurai discipline. On the contrary, he was undisciplined, practically a drunkard and a source of shame to his unit. The only thing that no one ever questioned was Akamatsu's mastery of airplane piloting and his boundless courage.
As an officer and fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Sino-Japanese War II and the Pacific theater of World War II, Akamatsu was officially credited with destroying 27 enemy aircraft.
Most of his air victories were won while he was drunk. Despite this, his supervisors were behind him, as were his comrades who often defended and covered for him. He became an ace in one day in China, after shooting down 5 planes in one day.
During the last year of the war Akamatsu was assigned to be part of the Tokyo air defense under the command of Mitsubishi J2M Raiden.
The most spectacular event in Akamatsu's military life took place during an American bombing raid on Tokyo. A large B-29 formation flew unscathed over the Japanese capital under the protection of a strong P-51 Mustang escort. Of the few Japanese planes at the base, only Akamatasu was in a position to fight, but everyone advised him to stay on the ground, as he could do nothing against approximately 70 powerful P-51s.
However, for Akamatsu the word fear did not exist and he was also totally drunk. So he got on his Raiden and flew in the direction of the enemy formation, shooting with all his weapons. 5 minutes he faced the enemy Mustangs, managing to knock down two of them, until he ran out of ammunition. He then withdrew from the battle under enemy fire.
One American who witnessed it said “If he had been American he would have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.”
Sadaaki Akamatsu continued fighting drunk for the rest of the war and was never shot down. Miraculously he survived the war.
After the war he became a fish search pilot for the Kochi Fishery Assocation with a plane his old comrades bought until he sold it to contribute to his alcoholism, he ran a cafe in Kochi city, and For many years he battled alcoholism and died on February 22, 1980 from pneumonia."
As an officer and fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Sino-Japanese War II and the Pacific theater of World War II, Akamatsu was officially credited with destroying 27 enemy aircraft.
Most of his air victories were won while he was drunk. Despite this, his supervisors were behind him, as were his comrades who often defended and covered for him. He became an ace in one day in China, after shooting down 5 planes in one day.
During the last year of the war Akamatsu was assigned to be part of the Tokyo air defense under the command of Mitsubishi J2M Raiden.
The most spectacular event in Akamatsu's military life took place during an American bombing raid on Tokyo. A large B-29 formation flew unscathed over the Japanese capital under the protection of a strong P-51 Mustang escort. Of the few Japanese planes at the base, only Akamatasu was in a position to fight, but everyone advised him to stay on the ground, as he could do nothing against approximately 70 powerful P-51s.
However, for Akamatsu the word fear did not exist and he was also totally drunk. So he got on his Raiden and flew in the direction of the enemy formation, shooting with all his weapons. 5 minutes he faced the enemy Mustangs, managing to knock down two of them, until he ran out of ammunition. He then withdrew from the battle under enemy fire.
One American who witnessed it said “If he had been American he would have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.”
Sadaaki Akamatsu continued fighting drunk for the rest of the war and was never shot down. Miraculously he survived the war.
After the war he became a fish search pilot for the Kochi Fishery Assocation with a plane his old comrades bought until he sold it to contribute to his alcoholism, he ran a cafe in Kochi city, and For many years he battled alcoholism and died on February 22, 1980 from pneumonia."
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Men from the Asano Brigade in the Imperial Japanese forces. The Asano Brigade were actually a part (among many others of different ethnicities) of the Manchukuo Imperial Army... though, really under the command of the Imperial Japanese Empire. They were made up of White Russians, or their progeny, who fought and fled to Manchuria during the Russian Civil War, and fought under the command of Colonel Asano Takashi. They would fight against the Soviet invasion of 1945... fate unknown.
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WWII. 1942. Captured Dutch Brewster Buffalo B-339D fighter in Japanese markings.
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WWII. 1941/42. Japanese soldiers inspect a captured Curtiss P-40 Warhawk.
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1941 land-based Mitsubishi G3M Nell (Type 96) from the Genzan and Mihoro Kokutai and G4M Betty (Type 1) from the Kanoya Kokutai of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked and sank the Royal Navy’s HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse off Malaya.
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