Zero Fighters of the Rengo Kōkūtai squadron in China, september 1940.                                                                     the Zeros scored their first air-to-air victories when 13 A6M2s led by Lieutenant Saburo Shindo attacked 27 Soviet-built Polikarpov I-15s and I-16s of the Chinese Nationalist Air Force, shooting down all the fighters without loss to themselves

Zero Fighters in China, 1940

Tainan Kokutai Zero Fighters in Tarakan Island , february 1942. 

Zero Fighters in Tarakan Island

Soldiers of the IJA 2nd Division nicknamed the "Courageous Division" hours before the Battle for Henderson Field, October 1942.
The division total loss of the disastrous Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands was over 7,000 men. Afterwards, the 2nd division was assigned to garrison duties in occupied Malaya and Singapore.
 