eBay: Japanese airplanes and other hardware. (2 Viewers)

[Wayne Little]

 

[Snautzer01]

Nakajima Type-1 KI-43 Hayabusa Oscar

 

[Gnomey]

Good shot! Thanks for sharing.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Man, that is such a beautiful plane.

 

[Wildcat]

Great shot!

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[Snautzer01]

 

[Shinpachi]

Good choice, Snautzer01.

In fact, you could see a lot of such fake or decommissioned Japanese airplanes as decoy provided for the Allies air raids in YouTube.
Most of active planes were hidden in the shelters for the last stage of war.

 

[Snautzer01]

Fukueka Japan, 1945

 

[Snautzer01]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Snautzer01]

Cape Gloucester airfield New Britain New Guinea 1944.

 

[Snautzer01]

Shōwa L2D3 or L2D3-L, in US markings, Mindanao, Philippines, May 1945

 

[Snautzer01]

Kawasaki Ki-61 (Man on right, pointing is Maj. Thomas McGuire?)

 

[Snautzer01]

Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (2 other pictures in this thread)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Snautzer01]

Kawanishi n1k2-j Shiden kai (george) American star TAIC S9

 

[Wayne Little]

Cool!

 

[Snautzer01]

#57: N1K1-J Model 11 George Manufacture Number 7102 Tail 341-S23: Built by Kawanishi at Himeji sometime between August 13 to October 16, 1944. Propeller installed on September 15, 1944. Assigned to the 341st Kokutai, Fighter Flying Unit 402, with tail code 341-S23. Captured at Clark Field on January 30, 1945. Allied intelligence TAIC-SWPA repaired this George and applied US markings and tail stripes. Assigned tail code S9. Flying from Clark Field during April 1945, it was tested with the underwing and fusealge mounted guns removed, to resemble the N1K2-J configuration.Afterwards (or postwar) this aircraft was scrapped or otherwise disappeared.

 

[Wurger]