(born August 1917) was an officer and ace fighter pilot in the

Imperial Japanese Navy The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: Shinjitai: ' 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or ''Nippon Kaigun'', 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender ...

(IJN) during the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Th ...

and the

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of World War II. He graduated from his pilot training class in 1935 and served with four different carrier-based and two different land-based air groups (''kokutai'') in China and in the South Pacific. In aerial combat over China and the Pacific, he was officially credited with destroying 13 enemy aircraft. He was wounded in a dogfight over the Solomon Islands, spent 15 months in a hospital, and survived the war.

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* 1917 births Year of death missing Japanese naval aviators Japanese military personnel of World War II Japanese World War II flying aces Military personnel from Ehime Prefecture Imperial Japanese Navy officers {{Japan-mil-bio-stub