Imperial Japanese Navy dive bomber pilot Lieutenant Kiyoto Furuta, he was one of the few IJNAS aviators to take part in the Attack on Pearl Harbor and survive the war. In 2 separate occasions he scored hits with a 550 pound bomb on the US Navy fleet carrier Enterprise at the Battle of the Eastern Solomons and at the Battle of Santa Cruz during the Guadalcanal campaign.

Lieutenant Kiyoto Furuta

A IJNAS Mitsubishi A6M5 Model 52 Fighter of the 653rd kokutai, 165th hikotai, at Oita Naval Training Air Base, Japan. September 1944

Mitsubishi A6M5 Model 52 Zero 

An assembly line of nearly completed Mitsubishi A6M2 Model 21 Zero fighters at the Nakajima Aircraft Company’s factory in Ōta, Gunma Prefecture, Japan circa 1941. This factory would later be critically damaged by American bombardment on February 10, 1945. Currently it is a Subaru Corporation plant for kei trucks.