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War In China (1937-1941)

NAME                                VICTORIES                   AIRFORCE  COMMENTS

Tecuzo Iwamoto                         14               [80]    IJNAF
Toshio Kuroiwa                         13               [14]    IJNAF
Kiyoto Koga                            13               [13]    IJNAF
Kuniyoshi Tanaka                       12               [17]    IJNAF
Koshiro Yamashita                      12  [11+1]       [12]    IJNAF
Sadaaki Akamacu                        11               [27]    IJNAF
Motonari Suho                          11               [15]    IJNAF
Kan-ichi Kashimura                     10               [12]    IJNAF     1 by ramming
Momoto Matsumura                       10               [13]    IJNAF
Konsuke Kawahara                        9  [8+1]         [8]    IJAAF
Moshimi Minami                          9               [15]    IJNAF
Isami Mochizuki                         9                [9]    IJNAF
Takeo Kato                              9               [19]    IJAAF
Masayuki Nakase                         9               [18]    IJNAF
Mitsugu Sawada                          9  [8+1]        [13]    IJAAF
Mochifumi Nango                         8                [8]    IJNAF
Jiro Chono                              7                [7]    IJNAF
Matsu-o Hagiri                          7               [13]    IJNAF
Tadashi Torakuma                        7                [7]    IJNAF
Yonesuke Fukuyama                       7  [6+1]         [7]    IJAAF
Yoshi-o Fukui                           6                [9]    IJNAF
Watari Handa                            6               [13]    IJNAF
Ichiro Higashiyama                      6                [9]    IJNAF
Masaichi Kondo                          6               [13]    IJNAF
Takahide Aioi                           5         (6)   [10]    IJNAF
Macuo Hidaka                            5               [11]    IJNAF
Kaneoshi Mutó                           5         (3)   [28]    IJNAF


Keishu Kamihira                         4               [17]    IJNAF
Saburo Kitahara                         4               [10]    IJNAF
Micugu Mori                             4                [9]    IJNAF
Kiichi Oda                              4                [9]    IJNAF
Yuzo Okamoto                            4                [9]    IJNAF
Yoshio Oki                              4               [17]    IJNAF
Takeo Okumura                           4               [54]    IJNAF
Shizuo Ishii                            3               [29]    IJNAF
Cutomu Iwai                             3               [11]    IJNAF
Tadashi Kaneko                          3                [8]    IJNAF
Osamu Kudo                              3                [7]    IJNAF
Yoshijiro Minegishi                     3                [9]    IJNAF
Satoru Ono                              3                [8]    IJNAF
Kiyonobu Suzuki                         3                [9]    IJNAF
Minoru Suzuki                           3                [8]    IJNAF
Kacuma Shigemi                          3                [8]    IJNAF
Masao Sugawara                          3                [7]    IJNAF
Toraichi Takatsuka                      3               [16]    IJNAF
Yukiharu Ozeki                          3               [14]    IJNAF
Djuichi Ema                             2                [8]    IJNAF
Yoshinao Kodaira                        2               [11]    IJNAF
Fujikazu Koizumi                        2               [13]    IJNAF
Matsui                                  2                [2]    IJAAF
Akio Matsuba                            2  [1+1]        [19]    IJNAF
Jiro Matsuda                            2                [9]    IJNAF
Kiyoshi Nishikawa                       2  [0+2]         [2]    IJAAF
Saburo Sakai                            2               [64]    IJNAF
Gitaro Miyazaki                         2               [13]    IJNAF
Toyoki Eto                              2               [12]    IJAAF
Tanaka                                  2                [2]    IJAAF
Umekawa                                 2                [2]    IJAAF
Kazuo Tsunoda                           1                [9]    IJNAF
Akiro Yamamoto                          1               [13]    IJNAF
Masao Hideshima                         1  [0+1]         [3]    IJAAF
Hajime Kawada                           1  [0+1]         [1]    IJAAF
Katsura Kichise                         1                [1]    IJAAF
Aito Kikuchi                            1  [0+1]         [1]    IJAAF
Shuzo Kogawa                            1                [1]    IJAAF
Yutaka Kozuki                           1  [0+1]         [1]    IJAAF
Yohei Machiba                           1  [0+1]         [1]    IJAAF
Juichi Morimoto                         1                [1]    IJAAF
Hideo Morinio                           1                [9]    IJNAF
Kazuo Muranaka                          1                [8]    IJNAF
N. Obayashi                             1                [1]    IJNAF     by ramming
Masayoshi Ohtsubo                       1                [1]    IJAAF
Kiyonori Sano                           1                [1]    IJNAF
Toshijuki Sueda                         1                [9]    IJNAF
Aja-o Shirane                           1                [9]    IJNAF
Seitaro Awao                            1  [0+1]         [1]    IJAAF
Katsumi Anma                            1               [12]    IJAAF
Suzuki                                  1  [0+1]         [1]    IJAAF

[..]  ... All Kills

Tetsuzō Iwamoto (岩本徹三)


Nakajima Ki-27 Ko, 84th Dokuritsu Chutai, China, 1938.