CAPTURED AIRCRAFT - ODD PHOTOS

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The last ones in this series are a ex dutch DB7 and an ex russian Rata:
 

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You are welcome, Geo and Dave

Maj Yasuhiko Kuroe's job till the end of war was to train Japanese army pilots teaching how to fight or escape from his P-51.
He was in Osaka on August 15 when the war was over and the airframe was abandoned at Taisyo Airfield (present Yao Airport).
 
A Ki-84 flown by Morinao Gokan, at JGSDF Utsunomiya airfield on November 18, 1973.
This airframe was captured by the U.S. Army and restored by Ed Maloney a founder of Planes of Fame in the U.S. after the war was over.
Morinao Gokan, a former Japanese Zero fighter pilot, purchased it from Don Lykins to fly by himself in 1973.

Fuji Heavy Industries (former Nakajima Aircraft) volunteered maintenance till around 1980 when the owner passed away in 1976 and the airframe was sold to a local museum in Kyoto. It was resold twice and is now owned by Chiran Peace Museum in Kagoshima Prefecture.

Photos by courtesy of geta-o
Original site: WB-HAYATE

 
Thanks everyone

The name "geta-o" san is not his true name but he is one of the best aviation photographers in my country. His career started in 1960.
The former Zero fighter pilot, Morinao Gokan, was President of Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Japan then managing his own real estate company.
Searching for the cause of his early death, I came across geta-o san.

Fuji Heavy Industries has no policy to own the ww2 warbirds.
Present Fuji staff are banned to be proud of war contribution by former Nakajima staff.
A lot of episode there.
Thanks!
 
I have a picture of an AVENGER in Japanese hands from local paper here, it was shot down over Palembang Raid

Will try to look where i put it

Also a picture of ARADO 196 with Japanese Marking stationed at the PENANG Island, Malaysia where i stay now

CAPTURED USA Aircraft pictures of SBD Corsair too
 

 
Shinpachi said:
Fuji Heavy Industries has no policy to own the ww2 warbirds.
Present Fuji staff are banned to be proud of war contribution by former Nakajima staff.
A lot of episode there.
Thanks!
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That's just silly, with the help of great corporations like Fuji and Mitsubishi it could be so much easier to restore some of those aircraft to flyable condition. So much time has passed from ww2 and we could simply look at those warbirds as a piece of history, not a tool of conquest ...
I hope this policy will change some day.
 
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