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Description: US military personnel inspect a Japanese Zero aircraft piloted by Tadayoshi Koga that crashed on Akutan Island after bombing Dutch Harbor on June 4, 1942. The Zero was later shipped to the US and put into flying condition for intelligence purposes. Koga was killed in the crash.
Title: AkutanZero1
Credit: Flickr Dickrell, Jeff (2001) Center of the Storm: The Bombing of Dutch Harbor and the Experience of Patrol Wing Four in the Aleutians, Summer 1942, Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN: 1575100924. OCLC: 50242148. , p. 77.
Author: Navy photographer's mate Arthur W. Bauman
Permission: Book states that the photo is from the US National Archives
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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