507th Fighter Group

[eslima]

Read "Reublic_P-47_thunderbolt Vol 2 Kagero Monographs":

Four day after on atomic bomb over Nagasaki, the pilot of the 507th FG to the air on their 53 P-47N....Shortly after 13:00 hour formation 38 silvery thunderbolt reached the area of Seul, encoutered some 50 aircraft japanese. Lt Oscar Perdomo 464th FS ace day "five" japanese-Oscar.
What would the Japanese squad involved in this battle?.

[Leendert]

An answer may be at the end this story: http://www.neta.com/~1stbooks/oscarp.htm

It is written here that the Oscars were in fact Ki-84 Hayate fighters of 22nd and/or 85th Sentai at Kimpo/Seoul.

Regards,

Leendert

[John Beaman]

Leendert: Thanks for that link. A damned good story!

[JACK COOK]

I believe the 5th kill was a Willow.
Perdomo's son Kris was a Huey crew chief in VN and was sadly KIA.
He committed suicide over this about a year afterwards.

[FalkeEins]

you mean Perdomo himself ?

a sad story if that was the case...

[Jan Gazda]

Hata & Izawa give slightly different figures than above mentioned article with Japanese casualties being:

Maj Tomio Nakamura
Sgt Kaname Hagiyama
Sgt Kioyaki Tachiwa
Sgt Maj Heihachiro Nishino

from 85th Sentai and

1/Lt Takemasa Katsuta
Sgt Masayasu Ohkami
Sgt Fukashi Morozumi
Sgt Maj Yotaro Sato

from 22nd Sentai. Also they give as the day of the loss of the above listed as 11/08/45 but undoubtedly they have died in the engagement in question.

Jan

[JACK COOK]

Yes, he killed himself shortly after his son died in Viet Nam.

[Frank Olynyk]

Jack,
He killed himself March 2, 1976, five years later.

Frank.