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Although with certain disabilities, the Mitsubishi G4M was one of the pillars of the Japanese Air Force, especially during the early years of WW2, collecting numerous victories in many bombing missions. The following link provides a full report with a lot of pictures and information about this...

Fromhttp://http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/specials/special_cornelis_de_wolf.htm

Just a breaking news and I don't know details yet but - A Japanese entrepreneur Masahide Ishizuka 53 purchased a Zero (A6M3) in the U.S. and it arrived at Saitama City near Tokyo to be displayed on Nov 21. He says he is going to fly it in next year. View...

Good day, Ladies and Gentlemen!!!))) I encountered a number of questions in the construction of models of Japanese bombers B6N2 Jill in 48 scale. Start in order: 1. Quantity of fuel tanks in the aircraft. I'll try to explain the history of question. In book "Mechanic of World Aircraft...

Hello, I recently came into possession of a Japanese soldier flag. My grandfather, who was a United States Marine, brought this home after the war. I'm not sure where he acquired it. I know he was wounded on Iwo Jima but I don't know for sure if he fought in battles prior to that. He was a very...

How did the Chinese manage to fend off the Japanese as well as they did? It seems that the Chinese military must have been of better capability than commonly assumed, or the Japanese didn't make it top priority? And then there is Operation Ichi-Go. What were the Japanese thinking? With the...

Glad this is being done and hope more can be done with other groups! Records, photos of famed US WWII bombers go online - Yahoo News SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Thousands of feet above the Pacific Ocean, the bullets were coming fast and the flak was flying. Japanese fighter planes whizzed around...

Just recently, I picked up two books from a local S/H dealer, both in very good condition. They are both about the aerial defense of Nothern Australia during 1942 to '45, when the Japanese bombing raids were taking place on Darwin and some smaller towns. The first is called "Darwin Spitfires"...

Hello, I was hoping that someone on this site might be able to help me better identify a Japanese aircraft compass instrument I have. All of the identification and information located on the case, and the instrument, are in Japanese, so I had someone do some rough translation. The label...

This is my commissioned painting of the famous Raiden for a Japanese model kit company. ColesAircraft.com

I am building a scale model of the radial engined variant....I want to add rivet patterns to the "skin" of the model along with the panel lines but have been unable to locate any line drawings showing this detail...I have ordered a book that I hope will help but it could be after Christmas...

Hasegawa Kawanishi N1K2-J Shidenkai (George) 1/48 scale After much deliberation on which kit to embark on next from my (small) collection I decided to go for this one, as I've especially wanted to have a go at putting together a Japanese plane - with the weathering options to go with it...

This image I actually remastered from one of my earlier releases.

Digitally remastered piece.

Watercolor

Autographed by Zenji Abe and Saburo Saito.

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I'm not a new artist, but I'm new to the aviation art scene. These are a few of my limited edition releases, each series of between 15 and 50 have been autographed by noteworthy veterans or aces. I specialize in what hasn't already been done - especially Japanese WW2 subjects.

I'm not a new artist, but I'm new to the aviation art scene. These are a few of my limited edition releases, each series of between 15 and 50 have been autographed by noteworthy veterans or aces. I specialize in what hasn't already been done - especially Japanese WW2 subjects.