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Untitled Document. It was obvious that they were lost! Low lying fog made it impossible. Japanese naval pilots to make out any of the coastal features. Only a few hours earlier, they had taken off in their Mitsubishi. A6. M2 Type Zero carrier fighters from Tainan air base on Taiwan bound.
Saigon. En route they had become separated from and lost sight of. Now, nothing below was clear. Short on fuel. and unable to communicate because the radios had been removed to increase.
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Then, good fortune appeared to smile on them. The two pilots circled and prepared to land.*************** Mitsubishi A6. M2 Type Zero carrier. This is a view of V- 1.
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- The 252 Kokutai planned well. A flight of 12 A6M5 Zero fighters would be loaded with bombs and flown to Iwo Jima, scheduled to arrive at nightfall. To assist with navigation, two Nakajima C6N Myrt reconnaissance planes would.
November 1. 94. 1. Three units of the carrier forces would neutralize. American Navy at Pearl Harbor, while land- based air units would. Japanese operations on the Philippine Islands and the capture. Malayan Peninsula and in the. Netherlands East Indies.
Attacks against the British forces in Burma. Malaya were to be supported by bomber units of the 2. Koku Sentai. (Air Flotilla) which consisted of the Genzan and Mihoro Kaigun Kokutai.
Naval Air Groups). A detachment of Mitsubishi G4.
M1 Betty bombers. Kanoya Kokutai had been added to the force for good measure. On 2. 2 November, the 2. Koku Sentai. Shireibu Fuzoku Sentokitai (2. Air Flotilla Headquarters Attached. Fighter Unit), a special fighter detachment, was formed to fulfill. The 2. 2nd Air Flotilla Fighter Unit was composed of.
Air Flotilla. the Tainan and 3 Kaigun Kokutai. Tainan Kokutai provided fourteen. Mitsubishi A6. M2 Type Zero carrier fighters, four Mitsubishi A5. M4. Type 9. 6 carrier fighters (“Claude”), and three Mitsubishi. C5. M1 Type 9. 8 reconnaissance planes (“Babs”), under the. Lt. The 3 Kokutai contributed thirteen.
Zeros, five Claudes, and three “Babs” under the command. Lt. Three additional Claude fighters were added. Type Zero plus twelve Claude fighters, as well as six Babs. All were under the overall command of Commander. Yutaka Yamada, executive officer from the Takao Kaigun Kokutai. They were bound for air bases in the.
Saigon, French Indochina area but were scheduled to stop for refueling. Hainan Island. Tainan Kokutai records were examined and interviews. Japanese historian Juzo Nakamura. Commander Shigehachiro. Koro, in a transport plane bound for Saigon ahead of the main group.
Inano’s Zero, serial. V- 1. 72. Accompanying PO1. C Inoue would be Flying. Petty Officer Second Class (PO2. C) Taka- aki Shimohigashi, a native.
Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture, as confirmed by his younger brother. Shigefumi. PO2. C Shimohigashi would be flying his own assigned Zero. V- 1. 74. In the predawn hours of 2.
November, both pilots took off with the rest of their unit. They. were scheduled to fly a southwesterly course to Hainan Island, but. No one is certain how the two pilots made it to Leichou.
Pantao (also known as Leizhou or Luichow Pennisula). The radio equipment. Zeros in order to increase their operational. The two pilots undoubtedly became disoriented while flying. Noted Japanese historian and humanitarian. Dr. Minoru Akimoto, interviewed Akagi carrier dive- bomber pilot Tokuji. Iizuka. Iizuka- san, a veteran of the Pearl Harbor attack, was later.
Hainan Island. Iizuka- san observed that, “The. Leichou was wicked, with layers and layers of dense.
According to the famed post- war General Electric engineer. Fighter Group lead mechanic, Gerhard Neumann, the.
Hainan” Island. Holloway, ex 2. Fighter Group commander. Zeros had been captured “near the town.
Teitsan on the southeastern coast of Luichow Peninsula.” Dr. Kawamoto stated that the Government Travel Agency. Beijing had informed him that this “area was off limits. Dr. Kawamoto’s search. Peoples Republic of China archives in Beijing for records. Japanese military personnel failed to reveal pertinent.
However, archival records in Japan and the United States. Juzo Nakamura, and interviews with. Gerhard Neumann, Bruce Holloway, and American ace John R. Alison. have produced evidence and a plausible scenario of the events leading. As PO1. C Inoue and PO2. C Shimohigashi passed over the.
Qian Shan on the southeastern coast of Leichou Panto. Inoue was. successful, but Shimohigashi’s Zero fighter was extensively. The Japanese moved in and out almost. These Japanese pilots thought they.
Japanese controlled. The second. airplane landed alongside the first. The pilots got out, and. As I understand it, there were some school children.
It is very. likely that the local Chinese military force, recognizing the importance. Then the Chinese military detachment and/or. Zero, serial number 3. The other one (V- 1.
By summer’s end. the Chinese mechanics had reassembled Zero V- 1. Therefore. the Chinese mechanics had fashioned substitute panels with uncharacteristic. Meanwhile. in July of 1.
Mitsubishi A6. M2 type Zero carrier fighter. Aleutians by the United. States Navy. It was during this time, according to one unconfirmed. Maj. Twining, then Director of war Organization.
Movement, went to China on a liaison mission to the fledgling. China Air Task Force organization in the theater.
While there, so. the story goes, Twining was shown the remains of the captured Zero. General Claire L. Chennault of this fact. In October, Neumann, while standing outside a hanger.
Kunming, was approached by Holloway, the 7. Fighter Squadron.
C. O. Holloway said, “Herman, the Old Man wants to see you right. Neumann related his meeting with Chennault: “. How about trying to put one Zero together, to test fly. Alison corroborated: “I didn’t know Neumann at the time.
I really didn’t know that we had the Zero until Chennault. Mackie flew to Kweilin and proceeded south by train. Liuchow. A war correspondent from Yank magazine, Bill Barnes. War Department photographer, “Mac” Mc. Gregor. accompanied him. Neumann set about repairing it and making it flyable.
He also recalled that when. Zero 3. 37. 2 it had already been. Chinese camouflage and markings.