ronaldoB wrote:
Re The Kamikazi Prop wreckage from the Zero that hit the front
funnel of the Cruiser "Australia", When I was about 9 years old I
traded some Black Hawk comics for the Aircraft Identification plate
from THAT Zero with the kid next door.

My mate David's father worked at the Garden Island dockyard in
Sydney during the war years, and his father scored the ID plate
(which was about 120mm x 100, black with Japanese writing brass
plate )from the wreckage of that Zero. I don't know if he retrieved
it himself from the wreckage, or traded it with a sailor who had,
but anyway I ended up with it and had it in my collection of really
unusual bits for more than 50 years, but about 10 years ago I
noticed it missing....I rember saying that the Zero hit the front
funnel and low and behold, heres a photo on
alt.binaries.pictures.aviation

Thanks a lot for that pic Dave, brought back memories.

Ronaldo8




Thank you - the world just got a fraction smaller.




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Cheers

Dave Kearton