This is my completed 1/48 ICM Ki-21I kit. Products used include: Gunze acrylic black surfacer, Tamiya acrylics, including custom mixes for I...

These photographs of a Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger torpedo bomber appeared in the September 1944 issue of " Koku Asahi " magazine. Sho...

According to the clip naration: "On the same day as the capture of Guilin, 10 November, the elite troops of the Imperial Japanese Army ...

Can you identify the aircraft type but more importantly the unit etc?  Original photo from the Arawasi collection. Ed Bailey commented: Und...

Another clip from the NHK collection featuring a downed Vought F4U Corsair is Saigon (present-day Ho Chi Minh City). The date mentioned is J...

In the previous post of this series, we "briefly" discussed the fierce air battle over South Kyushu on March 18, 1945. Since then,...

According to a Japanese source, the arplane was found having made an emergency landing after being shot down (?) near  Kasanohara Navy Base,...

Douglas B-18 Bolo captured by the Japanese Army in the Philippines.  I believe it's the same aircraft in the above two photos and a diff...

After the capture of Manila, Philippines, in January 1942, the Japanese Army discovered numerous US aircraft—some entirely wrecked, others i...

Following our series on "captured Japanese aircraft", we will continue with the opposite topic, " Nihongun Rokakuki " (a...