Aircraft Of The Rising Sun

Refueling a Japanese transport aircraft

Ki-43 Oscar

KI-43 Haybusa

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A colorized version of a photo from that time of the carrier-based attack aircraft "Ryusei" taken at the Kisarazu base at the end of the Greater East Asia War. I believe that very plane sortied on a special attack mission just one hour before the Jewel Voice Broadcast...

Based on a photo taken in Yokosuka, I created a user skin for "Yo-261," but it seems highly likely that it was actually "Yo-251."

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Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-30 (Type 97) "Ann" light bombers in flight over the Bataan Peninsula. 1942

Japanese autogyro Ka-2.

In 1944, a Tenzan carrier attack aircraft from the U.S. carrier Essex, captured evading at ultra-low altitude after launching a torpedo from the flight deck.

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13 July 1945. Death of Sadamitsu Kimura. 8 victory Imperial Japanese Army Air Force night-fighter ace of the 4th Sentai. Killed in action flying his Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu ("Dragon Slayer"), during the final defence of the Japanese Home Islands against Allied air raids.

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A colorized version of a photo from around 1945 showing the night fighter "Gekkō" abandoned at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. Well then, let's do our best this week too.

The Nakajima J1N1 Gekkō (月光; moonlight) is a twin-engine aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. A prototype first flew in May 1941. The first full production variant of the Gekkō, the J1N1-C was a reconnaissance aircraft, although many of these underwent field modification into night fighters; in addition, a night fighter variant, the J1N1-S was later put into production. Towards the end of the war, J1N1 pilots also undertook kamikaze anti-shipping missions.[1] The Gekkō was given the Allied reporting name "Irving".

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Kawasaki Ki-61-1 Ko belonging to the 2nd Chutai and flown by ace Lt. Tarui Yoshimitsu, found in Cape Gloucester, New Britain Island, in December 1943.

12 July 1939. Death of Hanada Mamoru, 17 victory Imperial Japanese Army Air Force ace during the Nomonhan Incident (the undeclared Soviet-Japanese border war). Died from wounds sustained in action while flying his Nakajima KI-27 “Nate”.

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Suicide aircraft #Yokosuka MXY-7 "Ohka" 🇯🇵 found by 🇺🇲 personnel hidden in underground bunkers in #Kanoya prefecture, after the capitulation of #Japan 

Airfield personnel fold the wing of a Mitsubishi B5M1 carrier-based torpedo bomber (Type 97 Mod. 2 carrier-based torpedo bomber) at the base airfield. The aircraft was codenamed "Mabel" by the Allies

The aircraft marked "Maru-Toku" on the left side of Nasser is not for special attacks. From a certain perspective, the reason is even worse, but I'm not sure if I can disclose it, so please look forward to future updates. There are 49 Type 3 aircraft marked with Maru-Toku.