Aichi D3A1
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Would have been nice to have saved it...
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I was just about to ask what happened to it.
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Supposedly:
Naval personnel salvage Val dive bomber AII-251 assigned to the carrier Kaga. Tail section was broken away. Aircraft crashed near the Pan American Airways Landing at Pearl City.
The Japanese used a total of 54 D3As in the 1st wave, and 81 D3A's in the 2dn wave.
Crew KIA assigned to AII-251 were PO3c Noboru Sakaguchi (Pilot) and PO3c Nagaaki Asahi who was the (Gunner/Radioman)
DEATH BEFORE SURRENDER:
One of the crew committed suicide by drowning himself, the other rather than face capture went for his pistol and was shot by naval personnel.
RELIC OF WAR:
Aircraft was later sent to the Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, Penn for examination and lLater on to Curtiss Aircraft, Buffalo N.Y.
During the war, chunks of wreckage were sent to various exhibits and war bond drives...
Naval personnel salvage Val dive bomber AII-251 assigned to the carrier Kaga. Tail section was broken away. Aircraft crashed near the Pan American Airways Landing at Pearl City.
The Japanese used a total of 54 D3As in the 1st wave, and 81 D3A's in the 2dn wave.
Crew KIA assigned to AII-251 were PO3c Noboru Sakaguchi (Pilot) and PO3c Nagaaki Asahi who was the (Gunner/Radioman)
DEATH BEFORE SURRENDER:
One of the crew committed suicide by drowning himself, the other rather than face capture went for his pistol and was shot by naval personnel.
RELIC OF WAR:
Aircraft was later sent to the Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, Penn for examination and lLater on to Curtiss Aircraft, Buffalo N.Y.
During the war, chunks of wreckage were sent to various exhibits and war bond drives...
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