Hello,
I write on this old post cause I keep searching infos about probable Toshio Ota planes. I didn't find any infos in the book above (about Ota).
Ok, below, it's only an illustration
(don't know the source) titled "the cleanup trio" of Tainan Kokutai...
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- V-103 => S. Sakai. We know that the wreck of the V-103 found in 1993 wore red chevron and white tail stripe. We also know that the pilot was Tora'ichi Tkatsuka in September 1942. This aircraft (c/n 3647) left the Mitsubishi factory on 3 March 1942. Sakai probably flown this aircraft between April and August 1942 in 2 Chutai (with blue chevron...)
- V-191 => T. Ota
- V-171 => J. Sasai
But I wondered if an A6M2 coded V-191 is possible ? I thought that the V-19x were A6M3s... Also something is missing on this aircraft: the Chutai chevron on the fuselage ?
More than 3 years later, anybody to help me please ?
TIA
Stéph