A6M2 A1-101

mjfur · Mar 6, 2025

I wonder if this is pre or post Pearl Harbor? Can we get a translation for the back of the photo?

[Japanese Pilot Standing Next to a Plane]

Photograph of a Japanese pilot standing in front of his plane. The photo was taken on a ship. The tail of an aircraft is in the background with the letters and numbers AH01 on it.

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Wurger · Mar 6, 2025

A quite well-known pic seen in many auctions via the net.
According to different another sources I found ....

Imperial Japanese Navy Lieutenant Zenji Abe stands proudly in front of two Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters on the deck of the Akagi, late 1941 or early 1942.

The starbulletin.com | News | /2007/04/13/ says

Zenji Abe stands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Akagi one week before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

SaparotRob · Mar 6, 2025

Wurger said:
A quite well-known pic seen in many auctions via the net.
According to different another sources I found ....

The starbulletin.com | News | /2007/04/13/ says

Another case solved.

Wurger · Mar 6, 2025

SaparotRob said:
Another case solved.

Not exactly solved ... mjfur needs the translation of the texy at the back of the image. Although each could have written it there himself it would be nice to know what it is stated there.

Mike Wenger · Apr 12, 2025

mjfur said:
I wonder if this is pre or post Pearl Harbor? Can we get a translation for the back of the photo?

[Japanese Pilot Standing Next to a Plane]

Photograph of a Japanese pilot standing in front of his plane. The photo was taken on a ship. The tail of an aircraft is in the background with the letters and numbers AH01 on it.

texashistory.unt.edu

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Wurger said:
A quite well-known pic seen in many auctions via the net.
According to different another sources I found ....

The starbulletin.com | News | /2007/04/13/ says

Mike,

The give-away is the quilted covering on the engine cowling. After the Carrier Striking Force crossed the more temperate latitudes en route to O'ahu, the covers were dispensed with. This feature appears in several images from the period when Kidō Butai crossed the North Pacific during the week following its departure from Hitokappu Bay on Etorofu in the Kuriles... one cold, desolate place, if there even was one. One can see a similar cover in this attached photo, also taken on board Akagi. The men are fortifying the island with mattresses in lieu of ballistic shielding. Photo from the collection of Al Makiel, a wonderful friend from years gone by!

Mike Wenger
Raleigh, NC

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