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Addendum
The airplane in Image 4 from the magazine that you posted is V-187, an A6M3 (Zero Model 32) c/n 3028, Hōkoku Number 870 of the 3rd Squadron (Chūtai), Tainan Kōkūtai (Naval Air Group) based in Buna in August 1942. My source for this identification is Luca Ruffato and Michael J. Claringbould, Eagles of the Southern Sky: The Tainan Air Group in WWII, Vol. 1, New Guinea (Tainan Research & Publishing, 2012), p. 121.
The inscription beneath the Hōkoku number appears to be 洪源號, which baffles me. The individual characters may mean “river-source-number” and may be pronounced kōgenkō. That combination of Kanji does not show up in any of my hard copy or on-line dictionaries.
Don
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