List of Japanese Navy Air Force aces (Mitsubishi A6M)

This is a list of Imperial Navy Air aces flying the Mitsubishi Zero fighter during the Pacific War. == Aces == Tetsuzō Iwamoto: 94 (including 14 in China / personal diary details 202 kills) Shoichi Sugita: 70 (some sources say 80) Saburō Sakai: 64 (2 in China) Takeo Okumura: 54 (4 in China) Hiroyoshi Nishizawa: 36 official (102 claimed) Toshio Ohta: 34 Kazuo Sugino: 32 Junichi Sasai: 27 Sito Origami: 10 (9 in China, 1 disputed) Toshiyuki Sueda: 9 Kunio Iwashita == Other Navy Aces == Air Aces in A6M-2N Rufe floatplane fighter: Master Sergeant Kawai: 4 Master Sergeant Maruyama: 4 Air Aces in metropolitan defense (over Japan): Captain-Petty Officer Takeo Tanimizu: 8 (in an A6M5c fighter) Ensign Kaneyoshi Muto: 4 (with Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden-Kai "George 21", he fought against 12 F6F Hellcats, shot down four of them and forced the remaining eight to retreat) == Air aces over China (1937-1941) == The unit for operative evaluations was the Yokosuka air corps, but it transferred its responsibility to 12th Rengo Kōkūtai under the command of Captain Kiichiro Hasegawa when this group was sent to China.

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List of Japanese Navy Air Force aces (Mitsubishi A6M)

This is a list of Imperial Navy Air aces flying the Mitsubishi Zero fighter during the Pacific War. == Aces == Tetsuzō Iwamoto: 94 (including 14 in China / personal diary details 202 kills) Shoichi Sugita: 70 (some sources say 80) Saburō Sakai: 64 (2 in China) Takeo Okumura: 54 (4 in China) Hiroyoshi Nishizawa: 36 official (102 claimed) Toshio Ohta: 34 Kazuo Sugino: 32 Junichi Sasai: 27 Sito Origami: 10 (9 in China, 1 disputed) Toshiyuki Sueda: 9 Kunio Iwashita == Other Navy Aces == Air Aces in A6M-2N Rufe floatplane fighter: Master Sergeant Kawai: 4 Master Sergeant Maruyama: 4 Air Aces in metropolitan defense (over Japan): Captain-Petty Officer Takeo Tanimizu: 8 (in an A6M5c fighter) Ensign Kaneyoshi Muto: 4 (with Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden-Kai "George 21", he fought against 12 F6F Hellcats, shot down four of them and forced the remaining eight to retreat) == Air aces over China (1937-1941) == The unit for operative evaluations was the Yokosuka air corps, but it transferred its responsibility to 12th Rengo Kōkūtai under the command of Captain Kiichiro Hasegawa when this group was sent to China.

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