The Last airplane shot down ww2 ?? - Help needed

[kriegsmarine221]

actually the mig-9 saw no combat action at all. it was just too quickly outclassed by other jets like the mig-15 and f-86

[DVX - ilcovo]

The last aircraft shot down in WW2 was a B 25 Mitchell downed over Kobe august 22th 1945 by the Italian submarine Cappellini (renamed I.503 by the IJN). The Cappellini - with other Italian submarines - was surprised by the Italian armistice in Singapore. Afteir being imprisoned, the crew, apart almost all the officers, joined the Mussolini's Italian Social Republic, and the submarine served with a mixed Italo-German crew. After the German surrender in may 1945, the Cappellini-I.503 continued the fight with a mixed Italo-Japanese crew.
For many years, due to political and ideological reasons, the story of these numerous sailors deployed (or better, abandoned) in the Far East who refused to follow the orders of the Badoglio government was placed in the “forget me” box to avoid creating problems. The first and perhaps the only one who spoke about it was the famous Italian journalist Arrigo Petacco who, in 1986, was able to interview the Italian sailor Raffaele Sanzio in Yokohama. Raffaele Sanzio, then 66, recounted the whole story of the sailors like him, who fought aboard the Italian submarines (captured by the German forces in Singapore and Sepang) along with crewmembers of the Kriegsmarine, and later along those of the Japanese Navy. Their efforts were not much appreciated by new Italy. He had an opportunity to say that after Japan’s surrender (September 1st, 1945) the few surviving sailors were imprisoned by the Americans and treated like real traitors.
Sanzio married a Japanese woman and decided to settle in Japan for the rest of his life. “ It is not right to have been treated like that. I, along with my comrades, just did my duty, and well. Think that with the Cappellini (with a mixed Japanese-Italian crew) we fought in the Pacific Ocean against overwhelming forces. For the record, I can confirm that it was the 13.2 mm Breda machine guns of my submarine that, on August 22nd 1945, shot down the last American twin engine bomber. It happened in Kobe, and it was us Italians who shot it down.”

[Sid Guttridge]

Hi DVX Ilcovo,

This description looks like pure fiction.

Have you any hard or traceable evidence to support it?

Cheers,

Sid.

[Dwight Pruitt]

For 22 August 1945, the USAAF Combat Chronology states:


"WEDNESDAY, 22 AUGUST 1945

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

Ninth Air Force: HQ 365th Fighter Group and 386th, 387th and 388th Fighter
Squadrons move from Suippes, France to Antwerp, Belgium with P-47s.

WESTERN PACIFIC [Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: C-47 units arriving on Okinawa
from Hawaii: 311th Troop Carrier Squadron, US Army Forces, Middle Pacific;
and 316th Troop Carrier Squadron, Seventh AF."

That's it.

http://paul.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/wwii/us ... ug.45.html

[Sleipnir11]

And just to add another ingredient to this confusing recipe:

Aug. 15, 1945. Navy Lt. Cmdr. T.H. Reidy, commander of VBF 83 and flying a Vought F4U Corsair, records the last confirmed US air-to-air victory of World War II while hostilities are still officially declared, as he shoots down a Nakajima C6N1 Saiun reconnaissance aircraft at 5:40 a.m. local time over Tokyo. Five minutes later, the war officially ends.
Aug. 18, 1945. In the last combat action of any kind against the Japanese in World War II, a pair of Consolidated B-32 Dominators on a reconnaissance flight over Tokyo are attacked by 14 Zeros and Tojos. One US crew member is killed and two are wounded during the attack. B-32 gunners claim two victories and two more probables during the engagement. Both B-32s (one nicknamed Hobo Queen II; the other unnamed) are flown safely back to Okinawa.

From http://www.airforce-magazine.com/Magazi ... 944-46.pdf

Kills by F4U Corsair on August 15th, 1945:

0415: TF 38 launched 103 aircraft to attack targets in Tokyo area

0540: Lt Thomas Hamil Reidy, Acting CO of VBF-83 on board USS Essex (CV-9), downed a Nakajima C6N Saiun with F4U-1D, his 10th victory and the first navy pilot to score a kill on the day

0640: Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz ordered to cancel planned air attacks of TF 38 and recall aircraft launched in the previous two waves

0830: President Harry S. Truman announced the suspension of all offensive attacks

0945: US Army was commanded to standby

1050: Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz ordered to cancel Allied naval attacks to put an end of hostilities against Japan

1122: Ens Robert S. Farnsworth, VBF-6 on board USS Hancock (CV-19), downed a Nakajima B5N Type 97 with F4U-1D

1200: Emporer Showa broadcasted Surrender of Japan

Shortly after 1200: Ens Falvey McKee Sandidge, Jr., VBF-85 on board USS Shangri-La (CV-38), downed a Yokosuka D4Y Suisei with F4U-1D

Ens F. M. Sandidge of VBF-85 was credited with the last kill by F4U in the Pacific War. While Lt T. H. Reidy of VBF-83 was credited with the last kill by F4U before hostilities against Japan were officially ended.

[Rob Stuart]

Surely the last aircraft shot down in WW2 must have been a Japanese or Soviet aircraft shot down between 15 August and 2 September 1945. Fighting between the Soviets and Japanese did not stop until 2 September, and it's hard to suppose that neither lost an aircraft to the other during this period.

[Helmut0815]

Surely the last aircraft shot down in WW2 must have been a Japanese or Soviet aircraft shot down between 15 August and 2 September 1945.

Found this photograph:

August 29, 1945 Manchuria, China. A Japanese aircraft shot down by Soviet soldiers during the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation in the 1945 Soviet-Japanese War. Alexander Stanovov/TASS

Source: http://www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachri ... /522581154

best regards
Helmut

[R Leonard]

Looks in pretty good shape for a shot down airplane . . . and a nice stop, right in line with the other aircraft parked on the field.

[Helmut0815]

Maybe it was shot down while trying to take off. Of course the caption written by the TASS correspondent or the guys from Gettyimages can be false and the plane was destroyed by various other reasons. Who knows?


best regards


Helmut