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Long before he was the wild samurai Kikuchiyo...

TARPSBird

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...in Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, actor Toshiro Mifune served as a photo aircrewman in a recon squadron of the Imperial Army in WWII. These are screenshots I grabbed from a Mifune tribute video on YouTube. Good shots of standard IJA flight gear. I believe that's a Ki-51 Sonia in the background of one photo, and he's standing next to (I think) a Ki-36 Ida.
 
its still intresting to see how much flying 'uniforms' differed between the different airforces :)
 
Re: Same

Interesting post, I've heard of the Ki-51 Sonia, but the Ki-36 is a new one for me.
Toshiro Mifune was also in Tora, Tora, Tora. great actor.

TARPSBird, you got it right. Here's a link for ya,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikawa_Ki-36

Someone needs to do this plane for FS9\FSX.


<center>FS4 - FS4 Aircraft</center> FS4/AAF Ki-36 Japanese Army coordination
 
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