Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft

- Land-Based Units - 3xx Kokutais -

Version 2006_11_05 -  55 pics in total

 

 

 

301. Kokutai (02-  )
first "Tatsumaki" Unit
Japan, Yokosuka AB
3rd AG established at Yokosuka Air Group, and hence "Yo-C" tail code was allocated as a TEMPORARY tail code.
1944, October   -   Philippines
A6M5 M.52 Rei-Sen ZEKE A6M5 M.52 Rei-Sen ZEKE J2M3 Raiden JACK

(02-888)
Yukio Seki
(02-112)
-		   photo
p.31 MA No.470.

 

 

 302. Kokutai
(D- )
"Tatsumaki" Unit
Japan, Yokosuka AB
Air Group 302 was established March of 1944 at Kisarazu
It was an Air Defense unit assigned to the Yokosuka Naval Base for protecting the Japanese capital.
Training of the Raiden unit took place at Yokosuka and used a corner of the headquarters of the "Yokosuka Air Group" .
The unit was later transferred to Atsugi base. And later half of its force to Kyushu.
(It appears that only a part of the 302 Group shared a portion of the same base as Yokosuka Air Group at one time but they are separate groups)

AG302 was the fourth air group established at Yokosuka, and hence "Yo-D" tail code was allocated as a TEMPORARY tail code.

It's interesting that this "temporary" tail code was used until the end of the war
(yellow 'dots' are killmarkings)
This Kokutai was established under and belonged to Yokosuka Navy District.
It`s HQ and main force was always stationed at Atsugi.
However, from time to time, they sent a small detached group temporarily to other Naval Air Stations for support.
What was sent to  Kanoya Air Base, Kagoshima, Kyushu was called "Kanoya-Bunkentai",
but it originally flew from Atsugi and returned to its HQ finally.
1944, March => 1945, August    -   J2M3 Raiden Type 21 JACK   -   Japan, Kanagawa, Tokyo, Atsugi Airbase

(YoD-151)
-
(Yo D-1140)
 Late of 1944
(YoD-1190)
 Takehiko Baba

(YoD-152)
 1 Sqn. 302th FG flown by Lt. Susumo Ito
(YoD-1151)
 Hiroyuki Takeuchi, 1st  Squadron
(YoD-1195)
Lt. (J.G.) Sadaaki Akamatsu

(YoD-153) - Lt. Aoki
(YoD-1158)
(Yo D-1198)
(YoD-154)
(YoD-1164) - NAP1/C Sasazawa		 -

(YoD-155)
(YoD-1182) early 1945.		 -

(YoD-165) 		- -

(YoD-180)		 - -

(YoD-183)
-
(YoD-1183)
 1st. Squadron, Atsugi Air Base, Japan, Kanagawa		 -
1945, August   -   Atsugi Air Base, Kanagawa (near Tokio), Honshu, Japan
A6M7 M.63 Rei-Sen ZEKE Yokosuka P1Y2-S Kyokko FRANCES Nightfighter C6N1-J Saiun MYRT
Nightfighter
(YoD-106)
Lieutenant Yutaka Morioka
August 3rd 1945
 (YoD-176)
(YoD-295)

(YoD-126) - Ensign Sadaaki Akamatsu
(ACE, famous for his behaviour)
 (YoD 181)
-
(YoD-299)
-

(YoD-135) - Hiroyuki Takeuchi
  (YoD-191) 		-

(YoD-150)		 - -

(YoD-1132)		 - -

(YoD-1151)		 - -
J1N1-S GEKKO type 11
Nightfighter		 F4U Corsair E16A Zuiun PAUL

 (YoD-195)
 (captured)
 - fictional ?-
(302-164)

 (YoD-196)		    

 

 

312. Kokutai
(H-_)

8th AG established at Yokosuka Air Group, and hence "Yo-H" tail code was allocated as a TEMPORARY tail code.
  Shusui (J8M) unit (photo?)

 

 

321.(?) Kokutai
(21-_)

  P1Y-1 Ginga FRANCES

 

 

332. Kokutai
(32- )
 "Tatsumaki" Unit

1945, April   -   2M3 M.21 Raiden JACK   -   Japan, Kyushu, Kanoya Air Base


(32-190) - Lt. (J.G.) Nakajima
Naruo Air Base, 1945.
(32-190) - Lt. (J.G.) Nakajima
-

 

 

341. Kokutai
(341-  )

1944   -   A6M2 M.21 Rei-Sen ZEKE    -   Philippines, Manila, Clark Field
-
(341-S-51)
 Winter 1944		 -

1944   -   Kawanishi N1K1-J Shiden GEORGE   -   Philippines

(341S-12)
(341S-16)
(341S-23)

(341-S49)		 - -
1945   -   C6N1 Saiun MYRT   -   Japan
-
(341-16)		 -

 

 

343.  Kokutai
(343-  )
The first 343 Kokutai was equipped with Zeros and disbanded in July 1944.
- - -
Formed again as N1K2 George Unit "Genda's Blade" in December 1944 and
commanded by Captain Minoru Genda, the mastermind behind the raid on Pearl Harbor.
The 343 Kokutai was an elite unit of hand-picked pilots chosen to fly Japan’s newest and most advanced fighter, the Shiden-Kai (George), in the bitter defensive air battles over the Japanese homeland during the first half of 1945.
1945, March-April   -   Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden-Kai GEORGE   -   Japan, Kyushu
S301 (Sentou-/Fighter-) Hikotai S??? (Sentou-/Fighter-) Hikotai S701 (Sentou-/Fighter-) Hikotai
A B C

(343-15)
 Commander Kanno
(343-03)
-
(343-45)
 Leader Lt Takashi Oshibuchi, April 1945


(343-19)
 -
(343-20)
-
(343-36) - Lt. Ryoichi Yamada
19 March, 1945

(343-37)
 N1K2-J George 37, Matauyama, Ehime, Japan, April 1945		 -
(343-32)
 April 1945

 

 

352. Kokutai
(352-  )
1945, April  -   Mitsubishi J2M3 M.21 Raiden JACK   -   Japan, Kyushu, Kanoya Air Base


(3 52-20) - Lt. Yoshihiro Aoki,
Omura/Nagasaki, Spring 1945
(352-37) - Lt.(J.G.) Yoshihiro Aoki
(3 52-50)

(3 52-67) - Ensign Nobuo Kikuchi
( - )		 -

 

 

381. Kokutai
(?-  )
?

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