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Saburō Sakai
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Saburō Sakai was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Sakai had 28 aerial victories, including shared ones, according to official Japanese records
Sakai posing in front of the hinomaru on his Mitsubishi A5M Type 96 fighter (Wuhan, 1939).
Sakai posing in front of the hinomaru on his Mitsubishi A5M Type 96 fighter (Wuhan, 1939).
Saburō Sakai as a petty officer wearing a life jacket
Saburō Sakai as a petty officer wearing a life jacket
Sakai in flightsuit
Sakai in flightsuit
Rabaul, 8 August 1942: A seriously-wounded Sakai returns to Rabaul with his damaged Zero after a 4 h 47 min flight over 560 nmi (1,040 km; 640 mi). Sa
Rabaul, 8 August 1942: A seriously-wounded Sakai returns to Rabaul with his damaged Zero after a 4 h 47 min flight over 560 nmi (1,040 km; 640 mi). Sakai's skull was creased by a machine-gun bullet, he was blind in one eye, and his face was swollen and burned by exposure to the wind through his shattered canopy. Sakai walks towards the flight operations building as he insisted on making his mission report before accepting medical treatment.
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa
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Lieutenant Junior Grade Hiroyoshi Nishizawa was a Japanese naval aviator and an ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II. Nishizawa was known to his colleagues as 'the Devil'
Saburō Sakai
…be product of the imagination of Martin Caidin, the co-author of Sakai's book "Samurai." Supposedly, on the night of 16 May, Sakai and his colleagues, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa and Toshio Ota, were listening to a broadcast of an Australian radio program, and Nishizawa recognized the eerie "Danse Macabre" of Camille Saint-Saëns…
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Nishizawa (standing, first on left). in a group photo of the enlisted pilots of the Tainan Kokutai at Lae in June 1942.
Nishizawa (standing, first on left). in a group photo of the enlisted pilots of the Tainan Kokutai at Lae in June 1942.
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa in his Mitsubishi Zero A6M3 Model 22 (tail code UI-105) from the 251st Kōkūtai over the Solomon Islands in May 1943. The unit's ai
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa in his Mitsubishi Zero A6M3 Model 22 (tail code UI-105) from the 251st Kōkūtai over the Solomon Islands in May 1943. The unit's aircraft have been hastily sprayed with dark green camouflage paint on the upper surfaces.
Ceremonial toast: Lt. Seki's Shikishima Unit of the first Kamikaze Special Attack Corps, as they prepare to take-off from the air base at Mabalacat in
Ceremonial toast: Lt. Seki's Shikishima Unit of the first Kamikaze Special Attack Corps, as they prepare to take-off from the air base at Mabalacat in the Philippines (October 25, 1944).