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Senior Flight Petty Officer Imperial Japanese Navy

War record

1940 entered the navy (served on the China front as a maintenance rating) → retrained as a pilot and graduated from the 24th flight training course at the end of 1942 → 253rd Naval Air Group (Southeast Area) → 1942.11 the 204th Naval Air Group (Rabaul) → 1944.1.25 returned to the 253rd Naval Air Group → killed in the interception of 1944.1.26

In only a few months at Rabaul, shot down 12 aircraft in a little over 20 days before being killed in action

Unit: 253空→204空→253空
Victories: 12 (official credit)sources differ

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Source: Japanese Naval Fighter Units, p.223

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