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Since 2000, he has published many original articles on military history websites such as "The Art of War" and "German Military Center" and print media such as "Assault" and "War History Research", and translated many German films and television series Chinese subtitles
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Film and Reality - The Historical Examination Behind "Forever Zero" (Part 1) Battle Chapter
In the movie, Miyabe hisco piloted a total of six Zeros and served in multiple units, which can be verified in history, but some of them are different from historical facts:
In Hisazo Miyabe's first appearance, he impressed everyone with his superb landing skills, and some people commented that he was born in the Twelve Sky.
The 12th Air Force and the 12th Air Force of the Japanese Navy were ad hoc joint units composed of bombers, attack aircraft, and fighters (the "ad hoc" units of the Japanese army refer to combat units organized under the wartime system), and in the early stages of the war of aggression against China, they conducted air combat and bombing operations in central China.
On September 13, 1940, the Bishan Air Battle broke out between the 13 zeros led by Captain Sudo Saburo of the Ministry and the elite 4th Brigade of the Chinese Air Force, and the Chinese Air Force lost 13 fighters (27 were publicized by the Japanese side), and the Japanese side did not lose a single loss in the air battle, which was the worst loss of our Air Force since the beginning of the war.
On September 15, 1941, due to the imminent war with the United States, Britain and other countries, the twelve airspace were disbanded, and all the personnel returned to the Japanese mainland to prepare for war.
The story of the Twelve Air Spaces and the first zero war on the battlefield of the invasion of China will be updated in the "War on Paint" series in the future.
After returning to Hankou Airport on September 13, 1940 in the first battle of Battle Zero in the 12th Air Force, the commander of the Air Force, Hasegawa Kiichi Daisa, took a group photo with the crew
Captain Shigeru Suzuki's Zero Battle-11 landline
Twelve Air Masayuki Setoichi's Zero Battle-11 landplane
Twelve Airs Kunimori Sanfei Cao's Zero Battle 11 landplane
The first aircraft piloted by Miyabe Hisazo in the play is the Zero War II Type, the tail wing recognizes the digital AI-162, and the color is painted, according to the movie plot setting, it is equipped with the Akagi, but the aircraft number did not exist in history.
For the story of the attack on Pearl Harbor, see Alsoxa
War in Paint (13) - The Beginning of The Zero: The Man and The Man and The Man who attacked the Zero Air Force at Pearl Harbor
In 2013, The Japanese company Tamiya produced a 1/72 Zero World War II model set in the movie
The second piloted by Miyabe Hisazo was the Zero-World Ii with the tail number V-143, also painted in gauze, and was set in the film as the first squad leader of the first Tainan Air Force's first squadron, stationed in Rabaul, new Guinea, but this number did not exist in history.
The Tainan Air Force (Tainan Air Force) was formed on October 1, 1941, based on the First Air Force fighter group at Tainan Airfield under the designation V, and took off from Tainan Airfield on December 8 to attack Clark Air Force Base in Luzon, Philippines, after the outbreak of the Pacific War. In February of the following year, it was stationed on the Indonesian island of Bali. On 1 April, the Japanese Navy established a new 25th Air Force to replace the 24th Air Force in the direction of Rabaul. It administers the Tainan Air Force, the Fourth Air Force and the Yokohama Air Force.
In June 1942, a group photo of the sergeant major pilots in the Tainan Air Force, toshio Ota in the middle row, Saburo Sakai in the second left row, and Nishizawa Hiroyoshi in the back row on the left, was known as "Tainan Air Sanyu Wu".
All Tainan Air Force personnel and new aircraft arrived in Rabaul by ship on the 16th of the same month. After the move was completed, the elite 1st and 2nd squadrons were assigned to Lae, a forward base in northeastern New Guinea, near Port Moresby, the main Allied base in eastern New Guinea.
The two squadrons uniformly used the blue fuselage slash belt, the "ラエの青組" (Lae City Blue Group). The third and fourth squadrons that remained in Rabaul uniformly used the red fuselage diagonal belt, namely the "ラバウルの赤組" (Rabaul Red Group).
Squadron leader aircraft are painted with a blue horizontal strip above and below the vertical tail tactical number; the squad leader aircraft is painted with a horizontal strip above the tactical number: the first squad leader is white, the second squad leader is yellow, and the third squad leader is red.
In the movie, it is set that Miyabe Hisazo is stationed in Rabaul, so it should be the third or fourth squadron, but the fuselage ribbon in the play is a single blue of the first squadron, which is not consistent with historical facts. The white horizontal strip on the hanging tail indicates that he is the first squad leader.
Zero-battle 21 landplane by Saburo Sakai, the first squad leader of the 1st Squadron of Tainan Air Force (career record 28)
The zero-world type 21 landplane of the third lieutenant of the fourth squadron of Tainan Air Force, Lieutenant Raito Manshou
Zero-World Series 21 landplane by Lieutenant Ichi Sasai, Squadron Leader of Tainan Air Squadron 2 (career record 27)
The third is the Zero War II with tail number 9-112, dark green livery, set in 1943 as the second generation of Tainan Aircraft in Rabaul in 1943. The aircraft number never existed in history.
On November 1, 1942, Tainan Air Force was reorganized into the 251st Naval Air Force (also known as the second generation of Tainan Air Force), and the tail recognition number became "UI", "51" or "タイ", or no prefix number, and the historical 9 as the identification number was the Fourteenth Air Force on the battlefield of the invasion of China.
In the photos and newsreels taken in the Rabaul area in the second half of 1943, there were also a large number of Zero-War 52nd types with the identification number "9", and the unit to which it belonged was unknown. However, at this time, the two-five-one air has been dissolved, and it is impossible to appear the zero-war-21 type with the identification symbol of 9.
251 Air Nishizawa Broad Sense Flying Cao's Zero Battle II Type II landplane
The 251 aircraft of the Rabaul base is the Zero War II Type 105
251 Kutani Mizutake Kamitake Kamigao's Zero Battle 32 landplane (career crash record 18)
The fourth, the Zero-Battle II with tail number ツ-105, is painted in dark green and is set as Miyabe's landline when he was an instructor in the Tsukuba Air Force, where he was attacked by an American P-51 while piloting the aircraft on a training flight.
The Tsukuba Air Force (Tsukuba Air Force) was a separate practice air force from the Kasumigaura Air Tomoku Division in 1938 and was stationed at the flight field in the Tsukuba Mountains in central and western Ibaraki Prefecture, but became a Japanese home air defense force after the start of the U.S. bombing of the mainland.
At the end of the war, a special attack team was formed, and of the 120 reserve students who joined, 77 of them attacked as kamikaze special attack teams, and the first volunteer special attack unit in the Japanese Navy at that time participated mainly in the Battle of Okinawa. Tail tactic number is ツ.
Tsukuba Empty School Building
Tsukuba air cadets
Miyabe Kuzo's prototype, Toshisuke Fuyasu, spent 50 days as an instructor in Tsukuba in March 1945.
Tsukuba's Zero Battle II
Tsukuba Air Force Zero Battle 32
Tsukuba's Zero practice fighter type-one
Tsukuba's Zero practice fighter Type 52
The fifth aircraft appeared as the Zero Battle 52nd Type, the tail identification number 721-53, the fuselage and the upper wings of the fuselage were dark green paint, the belly and main wings were painted in bright gray, set as the Jiuzhou Deer House Base, the 721st Naval Air Force (Shenlei Force), responsible for escorting the special attack force.
The 721st Naval Air Force (721) was formed on October 1, 1944 at The Original Base in Hyakuri, Ibaraki Prefecture, as an experimental unit for the manned rocket-propelled special attack weapon Sakura bomb, named "Divine Thunder Unit" by Commander Okamura Kiharu Daisa, which means the sound of rapid wind and thunder.
A type of land attack of the Wild Squadron of the Divine Thunder Cherry Blossom Attack Team photographed by A U.S. military fighter jet
Due to the heavy losses and ineffective results of the Mitsubishi I land attack aircraft carrying cherry blossoms in actual combat, 721 Aircraft also launched eleven "Jianwu Team" and two "Shenlei Explosion Team" special attacks by The Kagoshima Prefecture Kagoya Flying Field and the Amami Islands Kikaijima Flying Field with explosive zero (that is, zero-combat suicide aircraft with bombs attached) from April 2, 1945.
By the time of Japan's defeat, the unit had 55 Sakura special attack aircraft, 365 carrying the mother aircraft, 10 escort direct cover aircraft, 89 jianwu special attack aircraft, 9 special attack aircraft of the Shenlei Burst Team, 187 kamikaze special attack teams, and 114 other people, a total of 829 people were killed.
The 708th Flying Team of the 721 AirCraft "Divine Thunder Cherry Blossom Special Attack Team" stationed at the Kagoya base is a type 24 land attack type D
The 721st Aircraft 711th Flying Team, stationed at the Shinji pond base, type 1 land attack type 24 Ding
After Japan's defeat, Sakura's suicide plane waited at Shinjiike Base for the U.S. military to take over.
The 721 Air zero battle type 52 B stationed at the base of the capital city
In 2013, Tamiya also released a painted model of the machine
The first plane at the time of the death of the official was Nakajima Zero Battle II, tail identification number 721-61, he originally flew the Zero Battle 52, but before the special attack with the Divine Thunder Force, he exchanged aircraft with Oishi, leaving the chance of survival to the latter.
As described in the previous episode, the film depicts Miyabe's special attack a few days before its defeat in mid-August 1945, but this does not coincide with the historical fact that the Ticonderoga was attacked on January 21, 1945. In terms of the time set in the movie, Miyabe should be a member of the Second God Thunder Explosion Team that attacked from the Kikaijima Flying Field on August 11, 1945, but in fact, the five explosive zeros of this special attack had no results except for two self-inflicted damage.
Miyabe's rank at the time of death in battle was First Class Flying Soldier Cao (一飛曹), and according to the usual second class special advance, he should skip the superior flying soldier Cao (上飛曹) and be promoted to Flying Soldier Cao Chang (飛曹長), and must be given another special advance to become a second lieutenant. Although there is a precedent for those who are posthumously promoted to two levels and then promoted to the first level after their death, they are very rare.
About naval special attack and special attack aircraft
The Japanese Navy began an organized air special offensive in late October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines. From then until February 1945, most of the Navy's kamikaze aircraft used bomb-mounted Zero-type fighters, known as Explosive Zero, Critical Strike Fighter (Explosive War), or Combat Critical Strike Fighter (WarBurst).
However, after March 1945, the explosive war was no longer the mainstream aircraft of naval aviation special attack, and the volunteer pilots of various units took turns to organize the field in active or second-line aircraft, such as the comet ship's critical aircraft, the moonlight night fighter, the galaxy land-based critical strike aircraft, the Type 99 ship's critical attack aircraft, the Tianshan ship's attack aircraft, and even the trainer aircraft.
"Red Dragonfly" (赤トンボ) is the nickname of the Japanese Navy's trainer aircraft that paints the whole aircraft in orange bright colors. On March 1, 1945, due to the deterioration of the war situation, the Navy ordered the full dismantling of the practice air force, and all trainer aircraft were converted to special attacks.
Shen ノ池 Naval Air Force Zero practice fighter type 1
The Kawanishi K5Y 93 intermediate practice aircraft of the Togoo Naval Air Force thus carried 250 kg of bombs and formed the Third Dragon Tiger Team of the Kamikaze Special Attack Team, which arrived at Miyako Island via Hsinchu, Yilan, and Ishigaki Island, and on July 28 launched a special attack on the U.S. fleet off Okinawa.
The special attack sank the USS Callaghan DD-792 destroyer, which was also the result of the last Japanese Navy air special attack to sink an enemy ship.
The pilot of the Third Dragon Tiger Team of the Kamikaze Special Attack Team, the fifth on the left is captain Hiroshi Mimura Hiroka
USS Callaghan
Because the VT fuze was ineffective against the wooden fuselage of the Type 93 exercise aircraft, the Japanese aircraft hit the starboard side of the Callaghan. The bomb on board blew through the rear cabin. Water began to flow into the cabin, and a fire that ignited anti-aircraft ammunition prevented nearby ships from providing assistance. It sank at 2:35 a.m. on July 29, killing a total of 47 crew members.
Under the appearance of a sentimental melodrama, "Forever Zero" tries to wrap into a layer of extremely ambitious propaganda attempts in a stealing way, diluting the state apparatus and a collective evil into the background of reverence for the individual, sparing no effort to highlight the identity of the individual as a victim, and the discussion of war and "special attack" is simple and crude, full of self-justifying logic.
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