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Originally Posted by Brian
Hi guys
'Japanese Naval aces & Fighter Units in WW2' (Hata/Izawa) states PO1c Terai FTR Darwin 7/9/43 (Appendix B, page 384); also on page 283 that PO1c Yasuda killed Dutch Easi Indies 15/5/43 (probably not an operation against Darwin, my mistake)
'Japanese Army AF Fighter Units and Their Aces' (Hata/Izawa/Shores) states (page 295) that Lt Kuroishi FTR Darwin 22/6/43.
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The published sources I know are the H/I (+Shores in JAAF) books, Price's Osprey Spit V book (a reliable author AFAIK, though I assume he used other secondary sources for a book like that) and the Kagero 3/202 Ku book (they mention an article by Shores as a possible source). Does anyone know others?
Those sources anyway agree on an A6M loss Sep 7. I'd never looked closely at the pilots lost appendices in H/I books. The May 15 must be non-Darwin as you say. The text of H/I JAAF p.41 says an attempted fighter sweep June 22 didn't make contact, consistent with what Jim Oxley just said from Allied side, so presumably the loss that day was non-combat. The losses mentioned in the Kagero book otherwise are not quite consistent with Price's but his account totaling 4 A6M and 1 Ki-43 loss seems more methodical and complete, not 100% clear from the Kagero text if claims or real losses are quoted in some cases.
Joe