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Rare photo from WW2 Burma

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]One of my Facebook friends sent me this..it was taken by his Grandfather in Burma..He was in the RAF regiment.

Kawasakis? in British Insignia?

 

 

 

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Mitsubishi J2M Raiden a.k.a 'Jack'. This is an amazing piece of archive!

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keep that friend close ;)

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ATAIU SEA was the Allied Tactical Air Intelligence Unit, South East Asia. They evaluated captured enemy aircraft. I haven't seen those interesting pics before, but others of Zeros, Bettys etc in similar markings are fairly well-known.

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a graphic of the aircraft in the photo :) (just found it online..same number on tail)

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Amazing!

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