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A 20G OF 3rd Bomb Group
89th Bomb Squadron. "BIG NIG III"
CREW UNKNOWN

'Yellow 12' flown by Uffz. Paul Lixfeldt, 6./JG 300, Loebnitz/Germany, November 1944
 
CORRECTED VERSION ,NEW SKIN WITH SHIELDS AND NEW TOOLING.
 
 
Thanks to Darren

A6M5C Saburo Sakai. Yokosuka Kokutai Japan 1945.
 
A6M2 Zero 21 Saburo Sakai Tainan NAG Rabaul 1942
 
His score of 64 planes downed is based on his own reports, and in some of his accounts it was one or two lower. Two Japanese pilots had higher scores, also based on their own counts. (Lieut. Tetsu Iwamoto shot down more than 100 Allied planes.) The Japanese Navy policy was not to credit personal victories officially, but to subordinate the individual to the group.
On Dec. 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he flew with his group to attack an American air base in the Philippines. He shot down an American P-40, in what was said to be the Japan's first aerial kill there. On Jan. 25, he downed an American B-17, the first Allied bomber to fall in the Pacific.
 
Sakai remains the top surviving ace of the Pacific Airwar.

YAK 3" RED 12" Unit: 150th IAP, 'Sword' Group
Pilot - Saveliy.V.Nosov (17 victories). Spring 1945
 
YAK3" Yellow 58" Unit: 157th GvIAP
Pilot - Sergey Lugansky, 1944. Inscription the the fuselage siad: 'Gift to Soviet Union hero Sergey Lugansky from members of the Komsomol of Alma-Ata city'. The number '32' - number of the victories( Single colour alternate included)
 
YAK 3 "White 39" of the VVS ace Mikhail Balakan, 31 GIAP, winter of 1944-45. In only 112 military flights, Balakan engaged the enemy a mere 22 times, and yet managed to shoot down 15 confirmed enemy fighters, with another 5 victories 'shared'; virtually one aircraft per combat! He later died in an accident in the Soviet Kosmonaut programme. .
 
YAK3" White 1" Unit: 303rd IAD
Pilot -
CO of 303rd IAD General-Major Georgy Nefedovich Zakharov. USSR, Autumn 1944

A6M7- 163 "Zero" 63 . 302 Flight Regiment,Atsugi airfield,
August 45. Commander, Lt. Yutaka Morioka,
Morioka flied "VAL"divebombers, until 1944 he became a Zero pilot.

B-25 J White "17 " Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment "Sevastopol'skiy"

I-100-I-KO. 244. Squadron.serial 177.
Pilot unknown.
 
Ki-100-Ia
Unit: 3rd chutai, 18th sentai
Serial: unknown,Pilot unknown.
Kashiwa. Spring, 1945
 
The new machine was really a terror: during its first combat above Okinawa, a group of Ki-100 could destroy 14 Hellcat without losses. They were engaged later against the B-29 above Japan until the last days of the war.

KI-43 HAYABUSAS .MORE INFO
IN ZIP. NINE DIFFERENT CAMOS.
All History based Not from my
Stetson.

NAKAJIMA B5N2. Capt. Matsuzaki./Com.Fuchita./Radio op.Norinobu. Was the original crew of AI-301 on AKAGI 1941.
Same aeroplane later and badly sripped,Carrier Akagi,Indian Sea 1942.

BF 110 G2? LN+TR Oblt.Karl Schlosstein.Luftlotte 5.
Northern Finland 1943.(RLM 74,75,76)
BF 110 C1 LN+ZR(WNr0965).Vaasa, Finland. March 1943.JG 5.(RLM 65.70,71.02)
BF 110 F2 VE+VZ.Malmi Airport,Helsinki.(74,75,76 under White- i guess)
January 1943.

6M5 "ZERO"52
flown by Ensign Sadaaki Akamatsu of the 203rd Naval Flying Group at Yokosuka in 1944.
Mitsubishi A6M2/N "RUFE"
954 Flight Regiment.Pilot:Eitoku Matsunaga.
Bandan Sea/Ambon Island,Sept.. 1943.

Ki-84
Unit: 102nd sentai
Serial: 85
Okinawa, 1944.
 
 
Ki-84-Ko Silver
Unit: unknown
Serial: unknown
 
Ki-84-I-ko
Unit: 1st chutai, 102nd sentai
Serial: 8
Kyushu, Japan, April 1945.
 
Ki-84
Unit: unknown
Serial: 36
No additional information
 
The Ki-84 proved faster than the P-51D Mustang and the P-47D Thunderbolt at all but the highest altitudes. At medium altitudes, the FRANK was so fast that it was essentially immune from interception. The climb rate was exceptionally good, 16,400 feet being attained in 5 minutes 54 seconds, which was superior to that of any opposing Allied fighters.

Following a number of requests, here is a BW 393 Maj.Eino Luukkanen at Römpötti, November 42. 56
 
BW-370 Lt. Aulis Lumme Spring 43.16+1
 
BW-375 Maj. Eino Luukkanen Nurmoila Sept 41.
 
BE-356 Lt.Lasse Pekuri Tiiksjärvi January 42. 18+1
 
Lentolaivue 24.
 
LOTS OF INFO AND SOME PICS INSIDE.
 
Thanks to Josef for sending me the label.