Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous

Gnomey · Sep 8, 2019

Good stuff shinpachi!

Milosh · Sep 8, 2019

"david sherrian saved to ww11 planes+bombers+ground war

Imprint of a Mitsubishi Kamikaze "Zero" along the side of the H.M.S Sussex, a heavy cruiser with 4.5" of reinforced steel at the point of impact."

There is a couple of errors in the above statement, what are they?

Shinpachi · Sep 8, 2019

Same topic in this thread, Milosh.

Shinpachi said:
A very interesting picture, Geo.

In the late morning of July 26 1945, 2 Ki-51s flown by Sgt Isao Tokunaga and Corporal Toshiro Ohmura of IJA Alor Setar airfield in Malaya attacked the British Eastern Fleet off-shore Phuket. Tokunaga gave up attack because his attacking angle was too low. Ohmura aimed at the escort carrier HMS Ameer but was shot down. This is Japanese side record.

According to British side description about HMS Sussex on 26 July 1945,
"Her Task Force was attacked by 2 "Val" suicides (Mitsubishi type 99 dive-bombers): one was shot down by escort carrier Ameer and the second by Sussex. However, this latter one bounced on the surface of the sea and impacted the cruiser's hull above the waterline, causing a 2? metre dent. Later in the same day Sussex downed another aircraft."

The airframe imprint left on the hull would have been made by Corporal Ohmura as Sgt Tokunaga gave up attack to rejoin another attack in the same day.

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