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Correction on Zero 32
My earlier post was made hastily. I saw the date and that the unit was the Tainan Naval Air Group and made an assumption that the unit was operating from Rabaul. Obviously, by September 1944, Rabaul was no longer an operational airfield and the Tainan NAG apparently had redeployed back to their original location on Taiwan.
The heading of the page reads, "Zero Type Fighter 32 Model (A6M3). Tainan Naval Air Group. September 1944. Taiwan, Tainan Air Field."
Sorry for an overly-hasty posting and initial bum dope.
Incidentally, I would be grateful if someone with a greater facility with Japanese than I would translate the inscription to the left of the identification stencil on the fuselage (port side, aft of the Hinomaru national insignia).
Don
Last edited by Don Boose; 12-21-2007 at 01:19 PM.
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