The Tainan Air Group (台南海軍航空隊, Tainan Kaigun Kōkūtai) was a fighter aircraft and airbase garrison unit of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the...

Airport) operated by Japan Air Transport. After World War II broke out, this airport was converted to a base for the Tainan Air Group. During the war this airport...

crewmen killed while the Tainan Air Group lost four Zeros and four pilots. Until reinforcements could arrive, the 5th Air Attack Group was unable to continue...

Tainan (/ˈtaɪˈnɑːn/), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the...

the Tainan Air Group. On 8 December 1941, Sakai flew one of 45 Zeros from the Tainan Kōkūtai (a Kōkūtai was an Air Group) that attacked Clark Air Base...

Zero. The Tainan Kōkūtai (Air Group) was transferred to Lae on Papua New Guinea in March 1942, reorganizing with new officers. Among his Tainan equals,...

at the age of 22, he flew a Mitsubishi A6M Zero with the Lae-based Tainan Air Group. There the young petty officer, 1st class became one of the so-called...

maneuver, however it was used with success by Japanese Zero pilots of the Tainan Air Group in 1942 over New Guinea. It is rather a maneuver designed to show the...

flotilla's core units were the 4th Air Group, Tainan Air Group, and Yokohama Air Group. The 4th flew bombers, the Tainan fighters, and the Yokohama reconnaissance...

bombers Tainan Air Group (based at Lae and Rabaul) 18 Mitsubishi A6M Zero "Zeke"   6 Mitsubishi A5M "Claude" fighters (Capt. Masahisa Saitō) Yokohama Air Group...

and from Tainan Air Group and 11 A6M Zero from 3rd Air Group. The raid destroyed six Dutch navy aircraft and various facilities of the air base. On 3...

Nishizawa's squadron was transferred to Lae, New Guinea and assigned to the Tainan Air Group. There he flew with aces Saburō Sakai and Toshio Ōta in a chutai (squadron)...

the IJN's 4th Air Group (4th Kōkūtai) and launched from Vunakanau airfield, Rabaul, at 09:15 escorted by 11 Zeros from the Tainan Air Group based at Lae...

naval air bases until he was transferred to Formosa (then part of the Empire of Japan). Lieutenant Shingō became the leader (Hikōtaichō) of Tainan Air Group...

Look up Tainan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tainan may refer to: Tainan City, a city in southern Taiwan Tainan County, a county in southern Taiwan...

aircraft. On 13 May 1942, as a member of the Tainan Air Group based at Lae, New Guinea, Handa asked fellow Tainan ace Saburō Sakai to lend him his wingman...

thought to have been killed in action. Then, Okumura was assigned to the Tainan Air Group based in Rabaul. He recorded 14 shot down enemy aircraft in the Solomons...

of the Imperial Japanese Army from Takao Airfield and Navy's Tainan Air Group from Tainan, Formosa, hitting targets in Baguio, Iba Airfield, and Clark...

Lieutenant Toshitaka Itō moved to Rabaul for temporary duty with Tainan Air Group. The group's bombers participated in major raids against Guadalcanal on 13...

Takao Air Group, Kanoya Air Group against Guadalcanal. Even though they were escorted by 14 Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters from Tainan Air Group and additional...

Kofukuda led a fighter sweep of 28 Zeros (18 from 6th Air Group and ten from Tainan Air Group) ahead of nine G4M bombers and eight Zeros. The latter...

air combat resulted in the loss of three bombers and one Wildcat. On 20 October, Lieutenant (jg) Futagami led 13 Zeros (including six of Tainan Air Group)...

contains a list of air groups of Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service. Literal translation of 海軍航空隊 (Kaigun Kōkūtai) is "Naval Air Group", however, "Naval"...

to Tainan Air Base. Equipped with F-4B Phantom II, they were supported logistically by the 6214th Combat Support Group in support of the 327th Air Division...

enemy aircraft with 12 or 13 assists. Shimakawa was a member of the Tainan Air Group at the beginning of the Pacific War. Often assigned as a wingman to...

19, 1942. On its return flight, the bomber was then engaged by the Tainan Air Group A6Ms which had been patrolling over Vigan. They attacked it, followed...

1st Air Fleet (第一航空艦隊, Daiichi Kōkū Kantai), also known as the Kidō Butai ("Mobile Force"), was a name used for a combined carrier battle group comprising...

2000, given its present name National Tainan Girls' Senior High School. In 1971, A Complementary School on the Air was added to the school but terminated...

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The 343rd Naval Air Group (第三四三海軍航空隊, Dai San-Yon-San Kaigun Kōkūtai) was an aircraft and airbase garrison unit of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during...