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Description: An Imperial Japanese Navy Zero aircraft piloted by Tadayoshi Koga is damaged by anti-aircraft fire over Dutch Harbor, Alaska on 4 June 1942. Koga later crashed the Zero on nearby Akutan island and was killed in the crash. The Zero was recovered by US forces and used for intelligence purposes.
Title: AkutanZero3
Credit: 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. 78.
Author: Unknown
Permission: Source says photo is from the US National Archives
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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