Porte-avions japonais Zuiho attaqué par des avions de l'USS Enterprise pendant la bataille du Cap Engano – Bataille du golfe de Leyte – Campagne des Philippines (1944-1945) – Guerre du Pacifique – Luçon – Philippines – 25 octobre 1944
Combined Fleet Resupplying for the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in Brunei Bay. From left to right, Mogami (最上) in front of Musashi (武蔵), and Chokai (鳥海) in front of Yamato (大和).
The Type 4 rifle, a Japanese experimental semi-automatic rifle first produced in 1945. Firing the standard 7.7mm Arasaka rifle round, loaded into a 10-round integral magazine via standard 5-round Arisaka stripper clips.
None of the rifles entered service before World War 2 ended, with only ~250 being made at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal. The rifle also reportedly had issues with jamming and feeding.
A Nakajima Kikka (Orange Blossom) jet fighter on the ground before its second (but aborted) flight, 11 August 1945. The pilot, Lieutenant Commander Susumu Takaoka, is seated in the cockpit, and the ground crew is seen in front of the wing and standing near the tail. #WWII #WW2
A Nakajima Kikka (Orange Blossom) jet fighter on the ground before its second (but aborted) flight, 11 August 1945. The pilot, Lieutenant Commander Susumu Takaoka, is seated in the cockpit, and the ground crew is seen in front of the wing and standing near the tail. #WWII #WW2
"MINIATURE SUBMARINES, a Shinto Shrine, chopsticks and Jap characters and wrecked Zeroes were all left behind by the hastily departing enemy on Kiska. American bombs that preceded our troop landings accounted for much of the damage to Jap installations. Sgt. Edmond Birdsell of San Francisco tries out the chopsticks on a bowl of Jap rice, stores of which were found by U.S. forces."
- from the Kingston Whig-Standard. September 9, 1943. Page 2.
A member of the residual crew of Japanese Aircraft Carrier Jun'yō (隼鷹) signals an approaching tug from the carrier's flight deck. Photographed at Sasebo, Japan.
Note this Japanese Signalman's bugle, and details of the ship's island.
A lone tomb, a memory of Syonan Shipyard, and their links to Keppel House
Much has been made about the “mysterious” solitary Japanese tomb sitting on the southern slopes of Mount Faber. The tomb, which could be thought of as a memorial to a painful time in Singapore’s history, contains the remains of a member of staff of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ (MHI) Kobe shipyard, a naval architect by the name of Komoto Ekasa (or Omoto Egasa). Komoto was among an group of 94 MHI…
Japanese naval troops surrender to a US marine - Okinawa 1945. At this late stage of the war even the Japanese tradition of fighting to the death was starting to fail.