Mt. Comfort ,Indiana the begining of the Tora Tora Tora tribute to the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The view from way back by the beer tent , thanks to my wife for a different photo perspective. Not a bad picture for the camera she was using, an over the lens 110 instamatic.
While watching a stunt team preform ,This goes off in front of me. There is a Japanese Val divebomber almost invisible in the black pall of the explosion. The stunt team is gone and a voice on the loud speakers is screaming "This is no Drill Air attack PEARL HARBOR" Repeat "This...
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on a inspection and morale building trip of forward air bases possibly Raubul or Bougainville in very early 1943. Just a few short months before he would be ambushed and shot down and killed on a similar trip.
The first and only powered flight trials of the Mitsubishi J8M1 Shusui (Sword Stroke) just about to get under way.It was a Lookalike to the Messerscmidt Me-163B Comet built by prints and photos from Germany. The original mock ups,engines and parts unfortunatley never made it to Japan do to...
Japanese J8M1 Shusui (Sword Stroke) experimental single jet engine interceptor shortly after it's first flight trial which ended in a crash and the test pilots death June7,1945.
Japanese Navy attempt at a single engine jet interceptor fighter. Loosely based on designs of the famous German Messerschmidt Me-163 Comet. Airborne , but it would be short lived, in seconds it would crash after climbing and kill it's pilot.
Japanese Navy attempt at a single engine jet interceptor fighter. Loosely based on designs of the famous German Messerschmidt Me-163 Comet. Taking off on own power for its only time.
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