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Any idea what happened with the 13th prototype?
 
Were the Ki-61 mostly found in and around Japan, Homeland Defence and is the '05' the last digits of the serial number?

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Right....confused! ;) :lol:

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BII-213 was flown by a buntaicho. The crew were PO Toshikatsu Nishimura (pilot) and Lt. Shun Nakagawa (radioman/gunner). Note the two red buntaicho horizontal stripes. Lt. Shun Nakagawa, the Hiryu D3A1 commander at Pearl Harbor, also made the topic public in his article 'Dive Bombing Cruiser St. Louis' in Mikokai Shashin ni Miru Shinjuwan Kogeki [Pearl Harbor Attack in Unpublished Photos] (Tokyo: Rekishi Dokuhon, Bessatsu; 1990). He confirmed that many command aircraft during the Hawaii Operation were in gaudy markings. The reason given confirms the research by H. Yoshimura and M. Asano, that -based on training and past combat- dive bombers had become widely scattered and it was difficult to reassemble.

Info credit: David Aiken.
I'd like to do a Val in this scheme, but which one is more correct for this aircraft?
 

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