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#28 - PEARL HARBOR raid - Hiryu's fighters MpzCm6B
BII-101 was flown by a buntaicho - first wave. Lieutenant Kiokuma Okajima of carrier Hiryu, led his 6 fighters down
to attack Ewa Field, through the rolling smoke, executing strafing attacks until ground fire holed the forward fuel tank
of his wingman, Petty Officer 1st Class Kazuo Muranaka. When Okajima discovered the damage to Muranaka's plane,
he decided that his men had pressed their luck far enough, and began to assemble his unit and shepherd them toward
the rendezvous area some 10 miles west of Kaena Point.

#28 - PEARL HARBOR raid - Hiryu's fighters WN7jLEx
BII-107 was flown by a wingman.

#28 - PEARL HARBOR raid - Hiryu's fighters SW6yWhS
Zero over PH photo #1

#28 - PEARL HARBOR raid - Hiryu's fighters KXao7jx
BII-112 was flown by wingman, PO1c Kazuo Muranaka, Okajima's #2 wingman - first wave.
Ewa Field's ground fire holed the forward fuel tank of this plane.
His flight leader decided to leave the area and toward to rendezvous point.

#28 - PEARL HARBOR raid - Hiryu's fighters CaKsORd
BII-115 was flown by a shotaicho, PO1c Kijiro Noguchi - first wave.

#28 - PEARL HARBOR raid - Hiryu's fighters WhybN6s
BII-117 was flown by Noguchi's #3 wingman, F1c Tesuo Sento - first wave.

#28 - PEARL HARBOR raid - Hiryu's fighters Dl9dUSV
BII-120 was flown by a wingman, PO1c Shigenori Nishikaichi - second wave.
This plane was hit and belly landed at Niihau island.

#28 - PEARL HARBOR raid - Hiryu's fighters H1nSp2s
PO1c Shigenori Nishikaichi photo #1
PO1c Nishikaichi's plane was damaged by ground fire from Bellows Field. His plane was hit, and leaked fuel.
Pilots with damaged planes were told to crash land at Niihau and await the arrival of an Imperial Navy I-class submarine
assigned to rescue duty. The Japanese though the island was uninhabited. The islanders didn't known about the attack.
Nishikaichi played on the Japanese-Americans loyalties, and won a islander to assist him with a plan for death with honor.
He convinced him to steal back his pistol and a shotgun. The two took control of the village in the day on Friday, Dec 12,
where they took two prisoners before stripping the machine guns off the crashed zero and stowing them on a wagon.
They tried to destroy the plane, but the fire did not spread past the cockpit. They controlled the island until that night when
"Ben" Kanahele and his wife, captured islanders, resisted. In the melee, Nishikaichi was killed by Kanahele.

#28 - PEARL HARBOR raid - Hiryu's fighters 4y4ZaIB
BII-120 wreck photo #1
The US military took the engine and propeller to Oahu for investigation. The burnt remains stayed on Niihau for 65 years
and are now part of the exhibit about this event in the Pacific Aviation Museum, on Ford Island, within Pearl Harbor.

#28 - PEARL HARBOR raid - Hiryu's fighters EJJbc6G
BII-120 wreck photo #2

#28 - PEARL HARBOR raid - Hiryu's fighters 9zMeQOW
BII-121 was flown by a buntaicho, Lt. Sumio Nono - second wave.

#28 - PEARL HARBOR raid - Hiryu's fighters D3FaXV1
BII-124 was flown by a shotaicho. BII-124 pilot on 19 Feb 1942 was Itto (Hiko) Hei (Flyer First Class) Hajimi Toyoshima,
but it NOT flown by Toyoshima at Pearl Harbor. Toyoshima was not a Shotaicho, but was being trained to be Shotaicho.
On 19 Feb 1942, his Shotaicho did not fly and Toyoshima flew the Shotaicho plane.
INFO CREDIT: David Aiken.

#28 - PEARL HARBOR raid - Hiryu's fighters Bi4ZOqf
BII-128 was flown by a wingman.

#28 - PEARL HARBOR raid - Hiryu's fighters V5mUsp3
BII-129 was flown by PO2c Makoto Sasaki, a leader of one CAP's shotai but he wasn't a shotaicho, only a wingman.

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