Japanese pilot Major Teruhiko Kobayashi

 

Japanese pilot, commander of the 244th Sentai (regiment), Major Teruhiko Kobayashi (left), sits near a Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien fighter aircraft.
Major Teruhiko Kobayashi has been officially awarded five aerial victories (three B-29s and two F6Fs). But other data indicate 12 and even 20 victories, of which 16 were B-29 bombers (two of them were destroyed by the ram).




Location: Japan
Photo time: 1945

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