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[MiTasol]

The type has an interesting history. The design started life as the Ki-21 bomber then it was converted to a civil transport.

Pretty much the opposite of the Lockheed 14 airliner which became the Hudson bomber.

 

[Viking1066]

Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Zuikaku conducts air operations in the Indian Ocean in April 1942 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi G4M1 bombers from the Takao Ku flying over the Northern Territory in Australia REDD

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

The type has an interesting history. The design started life as the Ki-21 bomber then it was converted to a civil transport.

Pretty much the opposite of the Lockheed 14 airliner which became the Hudson bomber.

That is what I thought, a Ki-21 derivative.

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi G4M1 model 11 Navy Type 1 attack bomber from 705th Kokutai takes off from Vunakanau airfield for a raid against Port Moresby on April 12th, 1943 with A6M2b from Junyo FACB

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi J2M3 model 21 of Genzan Kokutai 1944 MUSH

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi Ki 21 I 60 Sentai China 1941 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi Ki-2 Type 93 Model 2 heavy bombers if the Hiko Dai-6 Sentai of either 1st or 2nd chutai MODE

 

[Lucky13]

PFC Raymond Bowman (R) and Lehmann Riggs (L) with their 30. Cal machine gun on a balcony in Leipzig, Germany, on April 18, 1945. Just minutes later Bowman was killed by a German sniper on that balcony, just 16 days after his 21st birthday.

The photographs by Robert Capa were published in Life magazine on 14 May 1945, shortly after Germany surrendered, with the caption "The Picture of the Last Man to Die."

He was a member of a platoon of machine gunners who entered a building in Leipzig and set positions to cover foot soldiers of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division who were arriving to the Zeppelin Bridge. Soldiers Bowman and Lehman Riggs of Cookeville, Tennessee took positions in an open balcony with a clear view of the bridge. One fired the gun, while the other soldier fed it. Riggs came inside, leaving Bowman alone firing the gun. When he was reloading the gun, he was shot in the cheek by a sniper's bullet which came from the street below. He crumpled to the floor, already dead.

War photographer Robert Capa climbed through the balcony window to the flat and he took a picture of the dead soldier, who lay in the open door with the Luftwaffe sheepskin helmet he had looted still on his head. He took other pictures showing how the blood spread on the floor, while other soldiers attended to Bowman and to his fellow gunner.

Bowman was actually not the last US serviceman killed in WWII, that unfortunate distinction went to Anthony Marchione. He'd just turned 21 and was killed by renegade Japanese fighter pilots three days after the August 15 ceasefire between the Allies and Japan went into effect.

Source: Internet

 

[Lucky13]

U.S. GI's take a morning walk accompanied by Dutch children in traditional Volendam dress -Hoensbroek Castle,
Netherlands - 1944....

Source: Internet

 

[Wurger]

the pic source: the net.

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima Ki-49s RUSCA

 

[Viking1066]

Raidens of the 302nd Kokutai FACB

 

[Warspite63]

Raidens of the 302nd Kokutai FACB
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Your collection of Japanese aircraft pictures is frankly amazing. You have introduced me to many types that I was previously completely unaware of. Thanks for posting!

 

[Viking1066]

Your collection of Japanese aircraft pictures is frankly amazing. You have introduced me to many types that I was previously completely unaware of. Thanks for posting!

You bet. When I have time, it's what I like to do. This site has been very educational for me.

 

[MiTasol]

Amen to that.

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi Ki 21 I 60 Sentai Manchuria 1939 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi Ki-57 "Hakukan" formally belonging to the CNAC at Nanking summer 1943 caption says MC20-1 MODE

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi G3M3 Model 23 of the Genzan Ku WYNA

 

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi Ki-30 of the 90th 90 Hikō Sentai at Yingde AF autumn 1938 MODE