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P-40B Performance (change of subject): Estimating the last moments of flight of Flying Tiger Jack Newkirk which ended with his fatal crash in Lamphun, Thailand on 24 Mar 1942. There are a number of possible scenarios regarding the fatal crash of Jack Newkirk (see two examples here and here)...

Thank you for the link to the Domei Reports. Interesting. Apparently my last post was misleading for which I apologize. Working backwards from your comment, "not two or three": in my #80, I identified four IJAAF casualties --- two Ki-36s (Umemoto identified them as Ki-51s) from 独飛71 and two...

Okay, I appreciate your guidance. FYI: I find Umemoto listing two events for the 独飛71. Both fit in the Feb - Nov 1942 Burma window: the first was downed in Lashio: Date: 4月17日 [1942] Unit: 独飛71 Aircraft down: 九八直協 Personnel: 山岡敏夫少尉 Location: ラシオ Shooter: AVG.P-40E Details: 家田中尉•重傷...

Clarification. Umemoto's abbreviations of aircraft types seem to be occasionally ambiguous. With my apologies, can you double check this list cross-referencing his abbreviations to Ki-numbers that I've compiled. I attach list as table. Just now I'm particularly interested in Ki-36 and Ki-51. I...

Correction to my #73: The 独飛71 event should be dated 17 Apr 1942, not 1943; and the aircraft involved was a 九八直協, not with a different third character.

Shinpachi, thank you for the comments (and your patience), and for the Wikipedia article cross-linking Ki-numbers with abbreviated descriptions. And thanks for the additional illustrations of ammunition magazine drums: but, as you've mentioned before, not much can be done definitively on...

The Ki-51. (Caution: I'm relying on Google translations, so some (or all) of what follows from Japanese sources, Umemoto and Wikipedia, may be wrong.) I correct my comment on my message #63 that Umemoto does not list any event involving a unit with number "71": He does list one event for an...

One more detail gleaned by phone from the former gong ringer: the aluminum disk was about a centimeter in thickness.

Mae La Luang crash landing: no hard evidence is available just now, not even a photo; however, a round aluminum disk, salvaged from the wreckage, had been used for years to ring the hour at the local police station. The Thai coordinator (now deceased) for the Thai-Japanese Memorial Hall in Khun...

You say that メーラルアン村に不時着した日本軍機１ seems to assume that a single engine aircraft was involved. The sketch on that webpage reinforces your point. I had my Thai translator check Cherdchay's interview in Thai in 2008 for mention of number of engines --- there was none. And she called our current...

Umemoto lists these two IJAAF aircraft models in events involving Sentai 21: ニ式複戦甲型 and ニ式複戦.. Sentai 21 was flying Ki-45s. What is the difference between these two?

Noted. Thank you.

Thank you, Shinpachi. I'll give it a try.

Continuing with the subject of a crash of a Ki-45 at Mae La Luang, Thailand: I believe that I've found a reference to the event in Umemoto (梅本弘,ビルマ航空戦・上). Shores in his Air War for Burma states that the only Ki-45 exposure in Burma was with Sentai 21. Equipped with Ki-45kai fighters, it moved...

Thank you, Shinpachi. Sobering. The tactic, if accurately described, worked. As at Omkoi, skill, courage, dedication, in the extreme, were rewarded at Mae La Luang: the crew of two suffered only minor injuries. I will include the detail, with your comment, on the webpages for both events. With...