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  • LAST JAPANESE FIGHTER RECOVERED IN HAWAII

    08/22/2006 3:51:50 PM PDT · by IonImplantGuru · 109 replies · 5,215+ views
    AOPA ePilot ^ | 18 August 2006
    The first pieces of the last remaining Japanese Zero fighter to be shot down over Hawaii on December 7, 1941, have reached the new Pacific Aviation Museum, now in its final fund-raising campaign and set to open December 7, 2006. This aircraft had just finished strafing Bellows Field and Kaneohe Naval Air Station when ground fire punctured its belly fuel tank, preventing it from returning to the aircraft carrier Hiryu and forcing it to land on what Japanese planners thought was an abandoned island, Niihau. However, the island's owners, the Robinson family, had heeded the warnings of a possible Japanese...