Nickname(s) One Wing Name Kanichi Kashimura Rank Ensign, Japanese Navy | Allegiance Japan | |
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Born July 5, 1913Zentsuji, Kagawa, Japan ( 1913-07-05 ) Unit 13th Air Group582nd Air Group Battles and wars | ||
Years of service June 1933-March 1943 | ||
Kanichi Kashimura (樫村 寛一, Kashimura Kan'ichi) (July 5, 1913 – March 6, 1943) was an Imperial Japanese Navy Naval Ace of the Second Sino-Japanese and Second World War.
On December 9, 1937, in a dogfight over China, he collided with a Chinese Curtiss P-36 Hawk. Despite losing part of one wing, he flew his damaged plane back to his airbase.
On March 6, 1943 he was shot down by a US aircraft near the Russell Islands.
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