Photos Japanese Army Airforce

[musec04]

Hello,


Currently on ebay is a photo of a Tachikawa Ki-74


https://www.ebay.com/itm/36523334692...D4SPDYXYB9EBSJ



Also Currently on ebay is a photo of a Kawasaki Ki-61


https://www.ebay.com/itm/36523335204...Bk9SR-iAmufmZA


These arerepresentative of a number of photos Japanese aircraft taken by a member of the US 8th Combat Cargo Squadron which can be found here


https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr...&_nkw=captured



Regards,


Clint

[musec04]

Hello,


From the last link in the previous post in this thread,there is a photo of a Mitsubishi Ki-46


https://www.ebay.com/itm/365233270801


Can someone please assist in supplying the unit of the machine shown. If anything the marking style is more like that of JNAF machines, or perhaps it has been applied post capture? In any event, I've searched and come up empty handed.



Regards,


Clint

[Buckeye30]

Clint. The Navy did have some Dinahs, not sure if the 201st. Air Group had any but tail code was 01 or 201; some were collected at Yokota (Fussa) with other types for examination and a few were sent to the US on CVEs including "BARNES". The 8th CC Sqn. was stationed at Yokota in Sept. as part of the 2nd. CCG but some of their photos were apparently taken at Clark Field and Peleliu too so maybe incorrect.


Regards
Nick
Hopefully George will see your post.

[musec04]

Hi Nick,


Thanks for the reply. I believe that if we were looking at a 201 Ku machine,the 201 would be before rather than after the hyphen on the tail marking. I'm definitely not saying that that is automatically the case here,because if I was that certain I would not have asked the question. However,the marking does not match any JNAF Dinah operators that I've previously seen. Do you read the numeral/charecter preceding the hyphen as a 3? The reason I ask is that some 203 Ku machines dropped the 0 before the 3 late in the war. Again, I'm not aware of any known use of the Dinah by 203 Ku,but its a possibility.


Regards,


Clint

[Buckeye30]

Hi Clint. I don't think the 203rd had any Dinahs; "j.aircraft" have these NAVY units with some: 151 / 171 / 202Ku. The link is Rene Francillon's list for ARMY Dinahs, I can't see any links to 3-201 though. The 3rd. Okazaki AG used "3" plus number but were a Special Attack unit.

There are 2 photos of Dinahs marked "4-007" and "4-008" earlier in 1945 with 4th FCS (I think an Independent Chutai) presumably Mk. IV serials 5007 and 8, if so they would be 2 of the 4 shipped to the US from Yokota. I think Yokota is a reasonable location for 3-201 as the 8th. CCs was there from Sept. to 1946.



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Nick