The R-Area Air Force was a unit of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during the Pacific War that was involved in the Guadalcanal Campaign and Solomon Islands Campaign. The unit operated seaplanes
Mitsubishi F1M floatplanes at Rekata Bay.
Aichi E13A was the main long-range reconnaissance aircraft of R-Area Air Force.
R-Area Air Force forward base at Rekata Bay under aerial attack.
Raizō Tanaka was a rear admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during most of World War II. A specialist in the heavy torpedoes that were carried by all the destroyers and cruisers of the IJN, Tanaka m