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Lieutenant Colonel Major General (Posthumously) IJA. Order of the Golden Kite (Posthumously) KIA 22.5.1942. Kiyomi Katsuki (ja:甲木清実) 16. Warrant Officer. IJN. Floatplane ace, 7 victories by F1M2 Pete / A6M2-N Rufe / N1K1 Rex.
T. Kakuichi Takahashi. Hajime Toyoshima. Categories: World War II pilots. Japanese military aviators. Japanese military personnel of World War II. Hidden category: Commons category link from Wikidata.
Author. Mitsuo Fuchida (淵田 美津雄, Fuchida Mitsuo, 3 December 1902 – 30 May 1976) was a Japanese captain [ 1 ] in the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service and a bomber observer in the Imperial Japanese Navy before and during World War II. He is perhaps best known for leading the first wave of air attacks on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
Saburō Sakai as a petty officer wearing a life jacket. Saburō Sakai posing in front of a bomber aircraft. When Japan attacked the Western Allies in 1941, Sakai participated in the attack on the Philippines as a member of the Tainan Air Group. On 8 December 1941, Sakai flew one of 45 Zeros [ 9 ] from the Tainan Kōkūtai (a Kōkūtai was an ...
Lieutenant Junior Grade Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (西澤 広義, Nishizawa Hiroyoshi, January 27, 1920 – October 26, 1944) was a Japanese naval aviator and an ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II. Nishizawa was known to his colleagues as 'the Devil' for his breathtaking, brilliant, and unpredictable aerobatics and ...
Richard "Dick" Ira Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) was a United States Army Air Forces major and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II.He was one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and the country's top flying ace in the war, credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft, all with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
Richard Halsey Best. VB-6 pilots in January 1942: Best is seated 3rd from the left. Richard Halsey Best (March 24, 1910 – October 28, 2001) was a dive bomber pilot and squadron commander in the United States Navy during World War II. Stationed on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, Best led his dive bomber squadron at the 1942 Battle of ...
James Harold Doolittle (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his raid on Japan during World War II, known as the Doolittle Raid in his honor. [ 1 ] He made early coast-to-coast flights and record-breaking speed flights, won many flying races, and ...