The official AHF Japan at War quiz thread
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Thanks Aleks. Next question; there is only one known photo of a Kamikaze about to strike a US warship in which the pilots name was known. Who was the pilot and what ship did he strike.
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Bill
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Bill
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OK gents, times up! The answer is PO1c Katsumata Tamisaku. On 26 October 1944 Katsumata crashed his Zeke into the USS Suwannee of Taffy 1. Even more rare is the fact that Katsumata's aircraft had been previously flown by a Japanese ace but had been turned over to Katsumata because the ace was scheduled to fly to Manila to pick up a new aircraft. So my next question is. Who was that ace?
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Bill
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Bill
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Hello, Bill!
I'll make a try: is this ace Iwamoto Tetsuzo?
Best regards, Aleks
I'll make a try: is this ace Iwamoto Tetsuzo?
Best regards, Aleks
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Sorry Aleks, but no.
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Bill M. wrote:Sorry Aleks, but no.
Nishizawa?
gianpaolo
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gianpaolo,
WO Nishizawa Hiroyoshi is correct! I pass the game to you.
Cheers
Bill
WO Nishizawa Hiroyoshi is correct! I pass the game to you.
Cheers
Bill
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Bill M. wrote:gianpaolo,
WO Nishizawa Hiroyoshi is correct! I pass the game to you.
Cheers
Bill
Two IJNAF fighter pilots scored heavily at Coral Sea and Midway. Who were they?
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Gianpaolo
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Since this has been quiet for a while I will start guessing. I think that Iwamoto Tetsuzō was the highest scoring Japanese pilot at Coral Sea. I am not so sure about Midway but perhaps Harada Kaname as he was credited with 5 kills.
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Mostlyharmless wrote:Since this has been quiet for a while I will start guessing. I think that Iwamoto Tetsuzō was the highest scoring Japanese pilot at Coral Sea. I am not so sure about Midway but perhaps Harada Kaname as he was credited with 5 kills.
Hi Mostlyharmless
Thank you for reviving the topic
Let's see.... My sources confirm Iwamoto at Coral Sea but another pilot is mentioned as probably the top scorer
As for Harada at Midway I have 2 + 3 shared kills but again somebody did better; the pilot in question was downed by friendly A/A and rescued by a destroyer
gianpaolo
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I think it is time for a new question in this quiz. Anyone willing to post one?
/Marcus
/Marcus
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I'll bite.
This Japanese lieutenant general avoided extradition by the Russians for war crimes through the intervention of the World Jewish Congress. Who was he and what were the circumstances?
This Japanese lieutenant general avoided extradition by the Russians for war crimes through the intervention of the World Jewish Congress. Who was he and what were the circumstances?
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Perhaps Higuchi Kiichirō? I am not sure what he was supposed by Stalin to have done but http://www.ww2incolor.com/japan/higuti1.html says that "he allowed approximately 20,000 Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi Germany to cross the border from the Soviet Union to Manchukuo."
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In order to keep this quiz going I had better not produce anything devious so for something easy: Who's career might have been derailed by a problem with a geisha, who at least initially argued in September 1941 that “For that reason, whether we land in the Philippines or anywhere else, we should avoid anything like the Hawaiian operation that would put America's back up too badly” and was also the subject of a 1974 film?
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Onishi Takijiro, perhaps?