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#avgeeks, can you guess this aircraft? Hint: It's sometimes described as a cross between a German Bf 109 and an American P-51 Mustang 😗 #aviation #aviationdaily #aviationlovers #WWII
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1st April 1939. First flight of the Mitsubishi A6M Reisen (Zero), official Allied codename ‘Zeke’. The aircraft had superb agility and range, at the expense of a lightweight airframe. Improved Allied tactics and aircraft, plus declining Japanese pilot quality, ended its supremacy.
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1) A6M2 Zeros in flight, 1942. This variant bore the brunt of early fighting in the Pacific.
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2) Captured A6M5 Zero in flight, September 1944. By this stage of the war, the aircraft’s early dominance was long past, though if flown by a skilled pilot, it could still prove a challenge.
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3) As with many other Japanese aircraft, Zeroes were pressed into service as kamikaze aircraft. This A6M has been hit by anti-aircraft fire and is about to crash short of the carrier USS Essex in May 1945.
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1 April 1945. Yokosuka MXY7 Ohkas (rocket powered human-guided anti-shipping kamikaze attack aeroplanes) hit the USS West Virginia and three of her escorts.
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1 April 1939. First flight of Mitsubishi A6M1 Zero (Zeke) piloted by Chief Test Pilot Katsuzo Shima at Kagamigahara aerodrome. Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service long range fighter powered by a 780 hp Mitsubishi Zuisei 13 engine with a two-blade propeller.
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DECEMBER 22, 1943: painting showing IJN 🇯🇵 ace Susumi Kajinami in his Ki-61-I w/new German 120mm cannons shooting down B-25D 🇺🇸 “Little Stinky” (3 men survived). Q: where did this take place? (post it in the comments)
📷 | WORLD AT WAR
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Brand new Mitsubishi 🇯🇵 三菱自動車工業株式会社 A6M5b Zero model 52-Otsu being ferried to Yokosuka 横須賀市 Navy Base, mid 1944. Note the 300 liter drop tank with stabilizing fins & the temporary number applied on the rudder.
📷 | Zero Fighter Pilots
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“SOUND GENERAL QUARTERS!” | photo stills of Kamikaze 神風 - known officially as Shinpū Tokubetsu 🇯🇵 Kōgekitai 神風特別攻撃隊 “Divine Wind Special Attack Unit” - taken 1944-45. 3,800 kamikaze pilots died during WWII w/more than 7,000 Allied 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇹🇭naval personnel killed.
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Courtesy Adam Tooby Aviation Art
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Artist’s interpretation of the secret late war Yokosuka Suicide plane ‘Okha’ with a high explosives warhead, 1944.
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Lt. Yoshinori Yamaguchi's 🇯🇵 Yokosuka D4Y3 (Type 33 Suisei) "Judy" in a suicide dive against USS 🇺🇸 ESSEX on 25 November 1944. The attack left 15 killed and 44 wounded. The dive brakes are extended and the non-self-sealing port wing tank trails fuel vapor and/or smoke.
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Kamikaze 神風 fully inverted about to strike USS 🇺🇸 KITKUN BAY (CVE-71) 25 October 1944.
📷 | Howard Gerrard, Osprey Publishing “Leyte Gulf ‘44”
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