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Photo of a Ki-43-I at The Oaks Airport in Australia (1984). The story of this fighter is amazing. According to Pacific Wrecks, this is the 750th Ki-43-I, built in 1942. It operated from Papau New Guinea with the 11th Sentai until 1945, where it was damaged on landing. After repair, it was hidden 4 miles from the airstrip. With the help of POWs, the Australians found it and shipped it home. It was sold 4 times before restoration started in the late 80's. It was successfully restored and appeared at Warbirds over Wanaka in '96. In '99, it was sold again and is now on display at FHCAM.

Here's a timeline gallery of the plane: Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar cn-750. Video of her at Wanaka:
 
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Ki-43 test flight with Ro-San Dan (Ro-3) 5kg air to air rockets. I have had immense trouble in translating the text. I can't even find the full Japanese alphabet. I had to use an image text recognizer and then popped that into google translate. It gave me the following:
"Attach the air-to-air rocket b3 heaven under the 1st match and test the Makoto plain
Nakajima Island fishing technique middle plan. There is no tail mark in the bureau, only the numbers are obtained
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Incredible, thank you google =D>

 
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U.S. Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat crashed on deck of USS Takanis Bay (CVE-89), 18 March 1945. Shown after tailhook pulled out in landing.
 

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Shinpachi is the the go to guy for this sort of thing.
https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/members/shinpachi.16440/report
 
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