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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.
v. t. e. The Ranks of the Imperial Japanese Navy were the rank insignia of the Imperial Japanese Navy, used from its creation in 1868, until its dissolution in 1945 following the Surrender of Japan in World War II. The ranks were inspired by the ranks of the Royal Navy. [1]
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 ...
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 ...
Empire of Japan. Lieutenant Junior Grade Tetsuzō Iwamoto (岩本 徹三, Iwamoto Tetsuzō, 15 June 1916 – 20 May 1955) was one of the top scoring aces among Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJNAS) fighter pilots. [ 1 ] He entered the Imperial Navy in 1934 and completed pilot training in December 1936. His first combat occurred over China ...
Fighter aces in World War II had tremendously varying kill scores, affected as they were by many factors: the pilot's skill level, the performance of the airplane the pilot flew and the planes they flew against, how long they served, their opportunity to meet the enemy in the air (Allied to Axis disproportion), whether they were the formation's leader or a wingman, the standards their air ...
The Eternal Zero (Japanese: 永遠の0, Hepburn: Eien no Zero) is a 2013 Japanese historical war film directed, co-written, and with visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki.Based on the eponymous 2006 novel by Naoki Hyakuta, [3] [4] the film starts with a frame story set in 2004, where a Japanese man in his twenties learns that he is the grandson of a kamikaze military aviator who died in World War ...
Kaname Harada. Kaname Harada (原田 要, 11 August 1916 – 3 May 2016) was a Japanese flying ace of World War II. He was credited with shooting down as many as 19 Allied aircraft between late 1941 and when he was himself downed in October 1942. After recovering from the injuries sustained in this incident, Harada served as a flying instructor ...