Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (7 Viewers)

[SaparotRob]

Tainan Kokutai A6M2s at Lakunai Airfield around April/May 1942. Note the scant camouflage made of palm fronds placed on the wings and the Tavurvur volcano in the background FACB
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I don't see any Zeros.

 

[MiTasol]

Tainan Kokutai A6M2s at Lakunai Airfield around April/May 1942. Note the scant camouflage made of palm fronds placed on the wings and the Tavurvur volcano in the background FACB
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and note the maintenance workstand to protect the wing upper surfaces.

 

[Viking1066]

E13A1 of the 452nd Kokutai, this one seen on the concrete hardstand outside a hanger INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Tachikawa Ki-54b of unknown training unit RUSU

 

[Viking1066]

Ki-44 "Shoki" of the 47th Sentai in their Narimasu base.2

 

[Viking1066]

Tachikawa Ki-74 one of 16 built DEST

 

[Viking1066]

itsubishi B5M1 Navy Type 97-2 Carrier Attack Bomber "Mabel" of the 33rd Kokutai (tailcode red/white outlined 33-305) seen at Surabaya air base in Summer 1942 FACB

 

[Viking1066]

Tachikawa Ki-36s RUSU

 

[c1951]

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The gossip was it was fired across China and picked up Sea of Japan

 

[special ed]

The full story can be found in Skunk Works by Ben Rich. One was launched which got lost, flew over China and was found ten years later in Siberia. My memory may not be completely accurate, but I'm not going to dig out the book and read it again.
When the M-21 worked as planned, it was to drop the film cannister for retrieval in the Sea of Japan.

 

[flypaper2222]

Hitler and FW-200 "Grenzmark" flying Hitlers Fuhrer standard from the cockpit

 

[Viking1066]

Aichi D3A1 "EI-208" of the Shokaku Celebes 1942 WYNA

 

[Viking1066]

Tachikawa Ki-54 training school FACB

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Viking1066]

Aichi D3A2 model 22 of the Hyakurihara Ku 194401945 WYNA

 

[Viking1066]

This E13A1 may have received its dark green upper surface camouflage in the field as indicated by the lack of the white surround on the fuselage Hinomaru INHG

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima built A6M5a Zero Model 52-Koh of Tsukuba Kokutai, around October 1944. FACB

 

[Viking1066]

This is one of E11As with the Tateyama Kokutai aircraft, the yellow wing ID stripes indicating the time is September 1942 or later INHG

 

[flypaper2222]

Nationalist Chinese , which I'm assuming is of Japanese origin