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Pilots posing
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This photo provided by former Kamikaze pilot Toshio Yoshitake, shows Yoshitake, right, and his fellow pilots, from left, Tetsuya Ueno, Koshiro Hayashi, Naoki Okagami and Takao Oi, as they pose together in front of a Zero fighter plane before taking off from the Imperial Army airstrip in Choshi, just east of Tokyo, on November 8, 1944. None of the 17 other pilots and flight instructors who flew with Yoshitake on that day survived. Yoshitake only survived because an American warplane shot him out of the air, he crash-landed and was rescued by Japanese soldiers.
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It could be also a Hakajima Nate
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By the carenature of the wheels I think you're right Ealdwita
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Could this aircraft posibly be an Aichi D3A 'Val'? It's certainly not a Zero.
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Just noticed one more theng, is that a wheel spat showing behind the middle pilot?
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An interesting photo. I am curious about why they were using an Army airstrip because if that is a Zero behind them, then they were Naval pilots and would not be using an Army facility. The rivalry between the Japanese Army and Navy I think, would have...
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I believe it is a Japanese Light Bomber, the Mitsubishi KI-30, Army type 97 (Ann). These planes were used extensively during the war and were considered very good planes. Tachikawa made about 704. First used in China in 1938 they made a good account of ...
I believe it is a Japanese Light Bomber, the Mitsubishi KI-30, Army type 97 (Ann). These planes were used extensively during the war and were considered very good planes. Tachikawa made about 704. First used in China in 1938 they made a good account of themselves, but when faced with fighter interception they suffered heavily and were withdrawn, only to be used again as Kamikaze's at the war's end. If I were a betting man, i would say it was a Mitsubishi KI-30!