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A dear friend of mine was a Kamikaze escort pilot with the Japanese Army Air Force. He flew the Ki-43 'Oscar' and later the Ki-84 'Frank' fighters on several escort missions from lower Kyushu to the area of Okinawa in 1945. At the very end of the war he was pressed into service as a Kamikaze pilot himself and flew six missions to Okinawa - each time being forced to return due to thunderstorms en-route. He was oddly saved by the bombing of Hiroshima, where he was burned and in Hospital when the war ended. I painted this piece in his honor in 2006. He had died from Leukemia in 1992. - R. Cole
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History (as described on the display): Kamikaze Strike: January 13th, 1945 USS Zeilin, off Luzon, Philippine Islands The Attack Transport (APA-3) USS Zeilin saw action in virtually every Pacific campaign...
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Very rare piece of fuselage skin from Japanese Zero A6M3 Model 32, serial number 3148, bearing original and rarely-preserved Aotake blue-green coating. . This aircraft (serial number 3148) was built...
