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 

A Japanese soldier with a white bird (dove) on his Arisaka Type 99 rifle.

Bird-friendly Japanese soldier

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.