A database of photographs, desctriptions and locations of WWII wreckage remaining in Pacific.

2016年5月16日 · Aircraft crashed near the Pan American Airways Landing at Pearl City. The Japanese used a total of 54 D3As in the 1st wave, and 81 D3A's in the 2dn wave. One of the crew committed suicide by drowning himself, the other rather than face capture went for his pistol and was shot by naval personnel.

A database of photographs, desctriptions and locations of WWII wreckage remaining in Pacific.

On May 8, 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea took off on a dive bombing mission against U.S. Navy (USN) aircraft carriers. Returning, this Val force landed on eastern Sudest Island (Tagula). Both crew survived the landing unhurt and were able to radio their location.

US Sailors examine wreckage of Japanese Aichi D3A “Val” dive bomber that crashed during Pearl Harbor attack, Dec 1941: Flight deck of Akagi as seen from an aircraft that just took off from the carrier, Indian Ocean, Apr 1942; note D3A Type 99 dive …

2022年8月25日 · "Two crashes of dive bomber Type 99 (and later given the code name "VAL") were near "Wheeler" airbase. Both crashed just outside the base in or near the community of Wahiawa, Oahu. Mr. David Aiken's research reveals that both aircraft were from the Japanese carrier KAGA. Both VALs had targeted the USS NEVADA during her sortie within the harbor.

2025年2月25日 · The Aichi D3A Val aircraft was the standard dive bomber used by the Imperial Japanese Navy at the outbreak of Second World War in the Pacific. The aircraft was introduced at the end of 1939 as a successor to the Aichi D1A dive bomber. The first operational deployment took place in China in November 1939.

2013年11月24日 · US Sailors examine wreckage of Japanese Aichi D3A "Val" dive bomber that crashed during Pearl Harbor attack, Dec 1941. Naval personnel salvage Val dive bomber AII-251 assigned to the carrier Kaga. Tail section was broken away. Aircraft crashed near the Pan American Airways Landing at Pearl City.

2012年5月31日 · When the VAL crashed, pilot PO2c Gen Goto got out and dragged his radioman, PO2c Michiji Utsugi, from the wreckage and brought him ashore. Utsugi died and Goto buried him on shore in a very shallow burial. Utsugi used both of their pistols and fought with the 55th Coast Artillery beach defenders until Tuesday when he was finally 'dispatched'."

2014年9月24日 · Ewa Tour Visits Bullet Marked 1941 Ewa Field, 1942 Marine fighter aircraft revetments and December 7, 1941 crash site area of D3A Aichi "Val" and US Navy SBD that killed four air crew. Four US Navy planes, two Japanese planes and two civilian planes were shot down over Ewa killing 13 airmen, which isn't even the full extent of the Ewa air ...