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Kamikaze training school?Ki-43-IIas of 54th sentai at Kitanodai Airfield on Paramushir Island. It seems that this was a landing accident shortly after the unit arrived at the airfield. I'm not sure though, since this photo is from a website in Russian, and I used google translate.
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So. Your mother taught you to drive?
Fantastic picturea 54th Sentai Ki-43 intercepting B-25s over Paramushir - 1944. Despite being poorly suited for interception work, Ki-43 pilots were able to develop some effective tactics and inflicted some stinging losses on US bombers before they were completely overwhelmed.
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