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Lt Cdr Egusa's VAL at Pearl Harbor

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  • Member since
    June 2012
  • From: Pennsylvanai
Lt Cdr Egusa's VAL at Pearl Harbor
Posted by zwitterion on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 10:13 PM

I've seen FOUR different color profiles for the AICHI 99 VAL flown by Lt Cdr Takashige Egusa in the Pearl Harbor and/or Ceylon attacks. The mottled red pattern with thin yellow lines nick-named "ja-ja uma" (Profile 7 in OSPREY's "AICHI 99 KANBAKU VAL UNITS 1937-42") seems to be the MOST LIKELY profile for the P.H. attack but no photos exist of that aircraft.

Any comments???

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Western North Carolina
Posted by Tojo72 on Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:21 AM

welcome to the forum,I couldn't tell you,but you might want to try the A/c forum,your question will get more play over there.

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    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:46 AM

Photos of specific IJN aircraft like that are exceptionally hard to come by. For the most part the photos taken, at least the ones usually published, were very generic- aircraft warmng up on deck, aircraft launching, aircraft landing. Although many were taken at historicly significant events, the Japanese did not record the moment like the US, British, or even the Germans did. At least not in film that has survived to today.

 

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