- IJA Aces &
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- Posted By:
Kris Carelli <kris_carelli@yahoo.com>
- Date:
Friday, 6 September 2002, at 6:17 a.m.
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- Would anyone
happen to know a little more about 1st Lieutenant Toru Shinomiya?
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- I believe
that he flew a KI-61 for the 2nd Chutai / 244th Sentai during 1944-1945.
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- I read
somewhere that he was credited for downing a B-29.
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- Does anyone
know how many air-to-air victories he may have had during WWII?
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- Re:
1st Lieutenant Toru Shinomiya
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- Posted By:
Nick Millman
- Date: Friday,
6 September 2002, at 12:44 p.m.
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- In Response
To: 1st Lieutenant Toru Shinomiya (Kris Carelli)
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- Shinomiya is
credited with a B-29 by ramming attack on 03 December 1944, bailing out
successfully. The 244th claimed six and two damaged, with fellow pilots Cpl
Masao Itagaki and Cpl Matsumi Nakano also making ramming attacks and surviving.
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- Shinomiya
was killed on 29 April 1945 in a suicide attack off Okinawa.
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- I'm afraid I
do not know his total victory claims.
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- Re:
1st Lieutenant Toru Shinomiya
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- Posted By:
Kris Carelli <kris_carelli@yahoo.com>
- Date:
Friday, 6 September 2002, at 1:59 p.m.
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- In Response
To: Re: 1st Lieutenant Toru Shinomiya (Nick Millman)
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- Thank you
for this information .... I had read somewhere about his 1 credit with a B-29 but
was unaware that it was a ramming and did not know of any other victories.
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- Re:
1st Lieutenant Toru Shinomiya
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- Posted By:
Nick Millman
- Date:
Thursday, 12 September 2002, at 2:14 a.m.
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- In Response
To: Re: 1st Lieutenant Toru Shinomiya (Kris Carelli)
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- As it
happens I discovered some more information about Lt Toru Shinomiya in Henry
Sakaida's "B-29 Hunters of the JAAF" (Osprey Aviation Elite 5 - ISBN
1 84176 161 3).
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- Apparently
he did not bail out after the 3 December ramming but managed to land his
aircraft with a good sized chunk of the left wing missing!
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- There is a
photograph on page 36 of him standing with the damaged aircraft in the company
of Cpl Masao Itagaki who also made a ramming attack on this day and survived.
Both pilots were awarded the Bukosho for these actions.
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- There is a
studio photograph of Shinomiya in the full dress uniform of a major on page 38
and another photograph of his damaged Ki-61 on display at the Matsuya
department store in Ginza, Tokyo on page 42.
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- Re:
1st Lieutenant Toru Shinomiya
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- Posted By:
Rob Graham - the ReiShikiSenGuy <FraudFree947356@aol.com>
- Date:
Sunday, 15 September 2002, at 8:30 a.m.
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- In Response
To: Re: 1st Lieutenant Toru Shinomiya (Nick Millman)
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- I don't have
that book yet, but wonder if the Major was Kobayashi, as I think one of his
Hiens was displayed at a department store.
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- Re:
1st Lieutenant Toru Shinomiya
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- Posted By:
Nick Millman
- Date:
Friday, 20 September 2002, at 12:06 a.m.
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- In Response
To: Re: 1st Lieutenant Toru Shinomiya (Rob Graham - the ReiShikiSenGuy)
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- no, it is
definitely not Kobayashi!
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- Posted By:
Matt Poole <feb2944@aol.com>
- Date:
Friday, 27 September 2002, at 1:27 p.m.
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- Hiroshi
Takiguchi and Bunichi Yamaguchi of the 204th Sentai each has a biography in the
newly translated JAAF Fighter Units/Aces book by Hata, Izawa, & Shores. I'm
waiting to sort out a screwed up on-line ordering of this book. As it will be
an ongoing wait for my book,would someone, in the meantime, be willing to
summarize the new bio details regarding Yamaguchi's and Takiguchi's shared
destruction of two RAF B-24s over Rangoon on the night of 29 Feb 1944? I know
the info from the original Japanese version, but I sent updated details to Mr.
Shores in the hope that more specifics might make the English version. Are the
159 Squadron Liberator serial no's (BZ962 and BZ926) mentioned? Names of
skippers (F/Lt E.J.D. Stanley, F/Sgt. A.E. Arnold) given? Just curious!
Obviously the bio is not the place for much detail.
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- Re:
Aces B. Yamaguchi/H. Takiguchi in new JAAF boo
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- Posted By:
Nick Millman
- Date:
Friday, 27 September 2002, at 3:58 p.m.
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- In Response
To: Aces B. Yamaguchi/H. Takiguchi in new JAAF book (Matt Poole)
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- Yamaguchi:
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- "During
the night of 29 February/1 March 1944 he and Lt Hiroshi Takiguchi shared in
claiming two B-24's shot down and two probables over Rangoon, for which he
received an individual citation."
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- Takiguchi:
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- "He was
particularly successful against bombers and during the night of 29 February/1
March he and WO Bun-ichi Yamaguchi claimed two B-24's shot down and two more
probably so over Rangoon."
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- No other
details of these combats given.
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- Takiguchi
claimed two Dakotas shot down over Imphal on 25 April 1944 and three were
confirmed lost on that day, all from 62 Squadron, flying supplies into Sapam:
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- 'N' (FD952),
F/O C R Porter, W/O Edwards, Sgt Adshead, F/S Hunter - all KIA; 'X' (FL602),
F/S E J Winters, F/S Higgins, F/S Ramage, Sgt Eley - All KIA; 'F' (KG462), W/O
T Grynkiewicz, F/S S J Shepherd, F/S J H Mantle, F/S R G Pile - All KIA.
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- Aces
B. Yamaguchi, H. Takiguchi bios in book
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- Posted By:
Matt Poole <feb2944@aol.com>
- Date:
Wednesday, 25 September 2002, at 11:47 p.m.
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- In Response
To: Re: JAAF FIGHTER UNITS: Thanks Ryan! *No Text* (James F. Lansdale)
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- Hiroshi
Takiguchi and Bunichi Yamaguchi of the 204th Sentai each has a biography in the
JAAF Fighter Units/Aces book. I'm waiting impatiently, like others, for my
cheaper-priced Amazon.com copy. Would someone be willing to summarize the bio
details regarding their shared destruction of two RAF B-24s over Rangoon on the
night of 29 Feb 1944? I know the info from the Japanese version, but I sent
updated details to Mr. Shores in the hope that more specifics might make the
English version. Are the 159 Squadron Liberator serial no's (BZ962 and BZ926)
mentioned? Names of skippers (F/Lt E.J.D. Stanley, F/Sgt. A.E. Arnold) given?
Just curious! Obviously the bio is not the place for much detail
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- Posted By:
Kris Carelli <kris_carelli@yahoo.com>
- Date:
Friday, 16 August 2002, at 12:10 p.m.
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- Would anyone
be able to tell me which Chutai did Major Teruhiko Kobayashi may have flown for
while he served on the 244th Sentai during 1944?
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- Re:
Major Teruhiko Kobayashi *PIC*
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- Posted By:
UCHIDA, Katsuhiro <2000GT-B@mui.biglobe.ne.jp>
- Date:
Friday, 16 August 2002, at 3:00 p.m.
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- In Response
To: Major Teruhiko Kobayashi (Kris Carelli)
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- Maj.
Kobayashi was the "Sentaicho (CO of Sentai)". He commanded all the
Chutais of 244th Sentai.
- I believe
some Army aircraft experts will kindly give us further information about the
unit.
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- Photo:
Kobayashi on his Ki-61
- Credit: Maru
magazine (Ushio Shobo)
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- Editors
note: Picture at http://www.imira.ne.jp/Album/photo.asp?PID=278884&ImgType=0
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