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It looks like an A6M3-32?
 
Pacific War seen by military painter Shori Arai(1895-1972).

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Source: Pacific War Painting Masterpiece Collection

I loved that first picture since I was a kid!

Thanks for posting my friend!
 
I loved that first picture since I was a kid!

Thanks for posting my friend!
Thanks Jim.

Shori Arai(1895-1972) stayed on a aircraft carrier in Truk Island in 1943 as a military painter.
On the first day he arrived, he did not notice his old friend there but looked awkward accompanied with an IJN officer to Michitaro Takeda(1906-1997) as also a military journalist from Asahi Shinbun.

Takeda: Hey! Aren't you Arai-san?
Arai: .....Oh, Takeda-san. I have met a Buddha in hell!
Officer: Hell? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha........HA HA HA

Shori Arai in Truk, 1943

Source: 30 Years as Art Jounalist (1962)

His other works

Source: 従軍画家「新井勝利」


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