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Captain Masami Takahama (高浜 雅己, Takahama Masami), aged 49, served as a training instructor for First Officer Yutaka Sasaki on the flight, supervising him while handling the radio communications, [6] [7] [8] and also acting as the first officer. Takahama was a veteran pilot, having logged around 12,423 total flight hours, roughly 4,842 ...
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.
Star Blazers 2199, known in Japan as Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (宇宙戦艦ヤマト2199, Uchū Senkan Yamato Ni-ichi-kyū-kyū), is a 2012–2013 Japanese military science fiction anime television series that is a remake of the first Space Battleship Yamato television series created by Yoshinobu Nishizaki and Leiji Matsumoto in 1974, known in the United States as Star Blazers.
Other Navy Aces. Air Aces in A6M-2N Rufe floatplane fighter: Master Sergeant Kawai: 4. Master Sergeant Maruyama: 4. Air Aces in metropolitan defense (over Japan): Captain-Petty Officer Takeo Tanimizu: 8 (in an A6M5c fighter) Ensign Kaneyoshi Muto: 4 (with Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden-Kai "George 21", he fought against 12 F6F Hellcats, shot down four ...
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 ...
Yutaka Yokota, a Kaiten pilot whose three missions were canceled due to mechanical failures, and who wrote a memoir of his Kaiten experiences, [34] witnessed the attack on the Underhill. Following the successful attack on the Underhill , I-53 launched a further Kaiten at an unnamed vessel six days later.
Charles William Sweeney (December 27, 1919 – July 16, 2004) was an officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the pilot who flew Bockscar carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Separating from active duty at the end of World War II, he later became an officer in the ...
Survivors. 150. Japan Air Lines Flight 350 (日本航空350便, Nihonkōkū 350 Bin) was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61, registered JA8061, on a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, to Tokyo in Japan. [2] The airplane crashed 9 February 1982 on approach to Haneda Airport in Tokyo Bay, resulting in 24 fatalities. [3]