japanese

What a wonderful thing y'all are doing here!! I hope to take what clues I can gather here i.e. names, dates, places and make a more complete picture of what these flags saw. I'm horribly curious about the temple stamps as well. Without the story its just a piece of cloth. Thank you so...

Fagen Fighters Zero is finally home after a very heavy condition inspection. Can't wait to see it in the air more. Brandon

How were Japanese airfields defended in the Pacific area? What armory, how many people were available to defend them,...?

Hello, My family has had this flag for a while. I was hoping someone could help me with translating it and maybe even authenticating it. It supposedly has Hideki Tojo's signature on it, or at least that's what the paper on the back seems to imply. Sorry the pictures aren't great. If it helps...

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum and thought this would be a good first post. I'm a young collector and just becoming interested in WW2 artifacts. I purchased this Senninbari and was hoping it could be translated. I've seen the amazing work Shinpachi has done helping out members on the form...

Hi everyone, After owning this great piece of WW2 history for the past 37 years, I've decided to put it up for sale. Clearly, there is no precedent to go by to determine its' value. I hope you can help me with this. This was the version with the folding wing tips for carrier duty. This is...

What fighter in either IJA or IJN service we can call the best in 1943? Please elaborate on your choices.

If you could streamline Japanese aircraft, engine, and armament procurement, so there would be less duplication between Army and Navy, how would you do it? A5M or Ki-27? Ki-44 or J2M? Ki-21 or G3M? Ki-49 or G4M? Or were these aircraft sufficiently different to all be needed? What...

Hi all! I was unable so far to find anything about gun harmonization figures in use for Army fighters. I wonder if someone has and can post here relevant data. Any kind of fighter/weapon would be welcomed. Cheers, GB

I was re-reading Shattered Sword, about the battle of Midway, and started to think about how much more bang-for-the-buck the first team of US naval aviators gave compared to later pilots. In the Battle of Midway, for example, three squadrons of pre-war trained SBD pilots sunk 3 carriers in one...

Good morning gentlemen! I got by Japanese sources number of rounds loaded on 12.7 mm machine gun as being 270, instead of 250, as reported by all western sources. Indeed, Japanese Wiki lists three different loading (250, 270 and 350) in five items, whose Google translation repeats the word...

One of the main and most important Allied bombers, the B-17 was sparked interest and greed target of Germans and Japanese during WW2. Inevitably some planes were captured and tested by the enemy. I share with you the link below that has some photos of these planes, some rare, with German and...

I share with you the link below containing a collection of photos, including a rare photo of an airplane captured and with USAAF markings, of the Japanese fighter Kawasaki Ki-100, recognized by many as one of the best, if not the best Japanese fighter designed and built during WW2. Does Ki-100...

Today in the LA Times. Page not found - Framework - Photos and Video - Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times In January 1945, the exclusion mandate under Executive Order 9066 was rescinded and Japanese American internees were allowed to return to the West Coast. After a...

Saw this this morning. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/world/asia/retired-japanese-fighter-pilot-sees-an-old-danger-on-the-horizon.html?_r=0

More than 70 years after it sank during World War II, the legendary Japanese battleship Musashi has been discovered off the coast of the Philippines. https://www.yahoo.com/news/sunken-japanese-wwii-battleship-located-philippines-210741638.html

Saw this on the net earlier this year. Can anyone confirm or deny whether the Japanese used all those displayed? I guess hindsight is a great thing, but it was printed in 1943 (I think) during difficult times.... And have a close look at the Heinkel He-111 - has the artist drawn it with radials?

Hello, I was seeking information on the Tainan Kokutai and Toshio Ota during Spring Summer 1942 when I found this: from here ??A6M2b ?????????????????? (MYK DESIGN DECALS) I tried to translate the japanese with Google but not sure about the result. Apparently, if I well understood...

A Douglas C-47 with a mark of victory over a Japanese unit. It seems to be the only aerial victory recorded for an unarmed aircraft, at least during the Pacific War. History (Source: Comcast This plane is attacked by a Japanese fighter. To escape, the pilots of the C-47, the Lt. Charles P...

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE CONFIRM FOR ME THAT THIS ID TAG IS INDEED FROM A WW2 JAPANESE AIRCRAFT? IS THERE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT IT THAT SOMEONE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GIVE ME? WHERE MIGHT I LOOK TO FIND SOMEONE TO TRANSLATE THE TAG FOR ME?