Fighter Aces - Imperial Japanese Army Air Force
The following list of IJAAF Aces has been compiled from a variety of sources. These scores are simply unverified claims, either by the pilots or attributed to them.
The numerical scores represent a mixture of confirmed, unconfirmed, probable, damaged and presumed victories.
explanatory notes:
SW - Shanghai Incident / Shanghai incident (1932)
CH - War In China / War In China
M - Mongolia / Mongolia (Chalchin-Gol)
note:
names are far from being converted to Czech transcription
Sources:
Japanese Army Air Force Aces 1937-45, Aircraft of the Aces 13, Sakaida, Henry, Osprey Publishing Ltd., 1997, ISBN-10: 1855325292
Imperial Japanese Navy Aces 1937-45, Aircraft of the Aces 22, Sakaida, Henry, Osprey Publishing Ltd., 1998, ISBN-10: 1855327279
Japanese Army Air Force Fighter Units and Their Aces, 1931-1945, Hata, Ikuhiko & Izawa, Yasuho & Shores, Christopher, Casemate Publishers, 2002, ISBN-10: 1902304896
B-29 Hunters of the JAAF, Osprey Aviation Elite 5, Sakaida, Henry, Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2001, ISBN-10: 1841761613
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The following list of IJAAF Aces has been compiled from a variety of sources. These scores are simply unverified claims, either by the pilots or attributed to them.
The numerical scores represent a mixture of confirmed, unconfirmed, probable, damaged and presumed victories.
explanatory notes:
SW - Shanghai Incident / Shanghai incident (1932)
CH - War In China / War In China
M - Mongolia / Mongolia (Chalchin-Gol)
note:
names are far from being converted to Czech transcription
name | victories | victories/victories | notes/notes | |
Sinohara, Hiromichi | 58 [all M] | Anabuki, Satoshi | 51 (39) (1 by ramming / 1 by ramming) | Nakada, Yoshihiko | 45 | | Kamito, Sumi | 40+ | | Tarui, Mitsuyoshi | 38 [28 M] | 38 | | Koga, Sada | 31 | | Kuroe, Yasuhiko | 30 [2 CH] | Saito, Chiyoshi | 28 [21 M] | Sumino, Goichi | 27 | | Shimada, Kenji | 27 [all M] | Shibata, Rikio | 27 [14 M] | Saito, Shogo | 26+ [25 M] (1 by ramming / 1 by ramming) | Mijamoto, Goro | 26 | | Kimura, Takaji | 26 | | Kanai, Moritsugu | 26 [7 M] | | Hosono, Isamu | 26 [21 M] | | Hanada, Tomio | 25 [all M] | Furugori, Goro | 25+ [20 M] | | Kajinami, Susumu | 24 | | Haraguchi, Kichigoro | | Kato, Shoji | 23 [all M] | | Togo, Saburo | 22 [all M] | Ohtsuka, Zenzaburo | 22 [all M] | Iwahashi, Jozo | 22 [20 M] (1 by ramming / 1 by ramming) | Hasegawa, Tomori | 22 [19 M] | Asano, Hitoshi | 22 [all M] | Shiromoto, Naoharu | 21 [11 M] | | Matsui, Morio | 21+ | Kirō, Katsuaki21 [9 M] | Yoshijama, Bunji | 20 [all M] | Jamaguchi, Bunichi | 19 | | Ozaki, Nakakazu | 19 | | Ofusa, Jojiro | 19 | Kimura, Saburo | 19 [all M] | Takeuchi, Shogo | 19 (30+) | 19 (18+1) [9 CH] | | Ishikawa, Kanshi | 19 | | Wakamatsu, Yukiyoshi | 18+ | Shimizu, Kazuo | 18 | | Ishii, Takeo | 18 [all M] | | Takamiya, Kenji | 17 | | Takagaki, Hjoe | 16 [all M] | Jajima, Yoshihiko | 16 [all M] | Shimokawa, Yukio | 16 | | Ogura, Mitsuo | 16 | | Namai, Kiyoshi | 16 | | Motoyima, Muneyoshi | 16+ [all M] | | Kuroki, Tameyoshi | 16 [3 M] | Ito, Riichi | 16 [all M] | | Inoue, Misao | 16 [all M] | Igarashi, Tomesaku | 16 | | Seino, Eiji 15~ | Sakagawa, Toshio15~ (49) | Otake, Kyushiro | 15~ | | Ono, Megumu | 15 [all M] |
Sakai, Iwori | 15 (9+) [8 M] | Nango, Shigeo | 15~ | | Nakamura, Saburo | 15~ | | Matsuura, Toshio | 15~ [10 M] | | Masuzawa, Masatoshi | 15 [10 M] | Hazawa, Iwataro | 15~ | | Shono, Tadashi | 14 | | Onozaki, Hiroshi | 14 | | Okuda, Jiro | 14 [all M] | Noguchi, Takashi | 14 | | Mune, Noboru | 14 | | Motomura, Koji | 14 [all M] | Minami, Takaaki | 14 [all M] | Ishizuka, Tokujasu | 14 (23) [12 M] | Hirohata, Tomio | 14 | | Takahashi, Takao | 13+ | | Shirai, Nagao | 13 | Shindo, Norio | 13 | | Sawada, Mitsugu | 13 (12+1) [9 CH] | Kuwabara, Yoshiro | 13+ | | Kurono, Shoji | 13 [12 M] | Ito, Fujitaro | 13+ | | Ashida, Ryotaro | 12+ | | Iwase, Koichi | 12 [all M] | | Hinoki, Yohei 12 | Eto, Tojoki12 [2 CH] | | Aojagi, Yukata | 12+ (28) [10 M] | | Anma, Katsumi | 12+ (32) [1 CH,5 M] | Suzuki, Eisaku | 11 [all M] | | Shishimoto, Hironojo | 11 | | Kodama, Takayori | 11 [all M] | | Ishizawa, Koji | 11+ [all M] | | Fukuda, Tokuro | 11 [all M] | | Jasuda, Yoshito | 10+ | | Tsubone, Kosuke | 10+ | | Sudo, Tokuya | 10 (20) [all M] | | Shimamura, Miyoshi | 10 [8 M] | | Nomura, Akiyoshi | 10 | | Kobayashi, Taro | 10 [all M] | Kobayashi, Hohei | 10+ | | Kanazawa, Nobuo | 10+ | | Ichikawa, Chuichi 10+ | Asano, Jiro10 | |
Takiyama, Yamato | 9 [all M] | | Takiguchi, Hiroshi | 9 | Takahashi, Katsutaro | 9 [2 M] | Shimizu, Takeshi | 9 [4 M] | | Omori, Shokichi | 9 | | Ogawa, Makoto | 9 | | Noguchi, Kyusuchi | 9 [all M] | | Nakazaki, Shigeru | 9 | | Kono, Kensui | 9 | | Kimura, Yutaka | 9 [all M] | | Kawahara, Konsuke | 9 (8+1) [all CH] | | Kashima, Shirotaro | 9 [all M] | | Kashiide, Isamu | 9 (33) [2 M] | | Kani, Saiji | 9 [all M] | Kanbara, Daisuke | 9 [all M] | Ina, Akira | 9 [all M] | Hisashiichi, Noguchi | 9 [all M] | | Hirose, Ko | 8 | | Tobita, Hitoshi | 8 | | Terada, Shinobu | 8 | | Tashiro, Tadao | 8 | | Sekiguchi, Hiroshi | 8 (7+1) [2 CH, 4 M] | Okubo, Misao | 8 | | Obara, Tsutae | 8 | | Nishioka, Shigetsune | 8 | Mijamaru, Masao | 8+ | | Kimura, Sadamitsu | 8 | | Kawamoto, Koki 8 | | Kanamaru, Teizo | 8 [3 M] | Ito, Naoyuki | 8 | | Hida, Hitoshi | 8 [7 M] | | Watanabe, | 7 | | Ogata, Koichi | 7 | | Gomi, Hiroshi | 7 | Fukuyama, Yoshio | 6 | Sumi, Tadao | 6 | Nogushi, Yoshinori | 6 | Negishi, Nobuji | 6 | Ikuno, Fumisuke | 6 | | Takeshi, Shimizu | 5 | Takanashi, Tatsuo | 5 | Sato, Gonnoshi | 5 | Ogata, Naoyuki | 5 | Nishio, Hannoshin | 5 | Nakano, Matsumi | 5 | Kobayashi, Teruhiko | 5 (12) (1 by ramming / 1 by ramming) | Kawakita, Akira | 5 | | Kanemaru, Teizo | 5 | Ishikawa, Tadashi | 5 | Inayama, Hideaki | 5+ | Furukawa, Harujoshi | 5+ | Beppu, Kisaji | 5 | 5 |
Sources:
Japanese Army Air Force Aces 1937-45, Aircraft of the Aces 13, Sakaida, Henry, Osprey Publishing Ltd., 1997, ISBN-10: 1855325292
Imperial Japanese Navy Aces 1937-45, Aircraft of the Aces 22, Sakaida, Henry, Osprey Publishing Ltd., 1998, ISBN-10: 1855327279
Japanese Army Air Force Fighter Units and Their Aces, 1931-1945, Hata, Ikuhiko & Izawa, Yasuho & Shores, Christopher, Casemate Publishers, 2002, ISBN-10: 1902304896
B-29 Hunters of the JAAF, Osprey Aviation Elite 5, Sakaida, Henry, Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2001, ISBN-10: 1841761613
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