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English: US Navy Lieutenant Commander Eddie Sanders taxis a captured Imperial Japanese Navy Zero fighter at Naval Air Station San Diego, California in September 1942. The fighter, piloted by Tadayoshi Koga, had crashed on Akutan Island, Alaska on June 4, 1942 after participating in an attack on Dutch Harbor. Koga was killed in the crash. On July 11, 1942 the US military recovered the aircraft and sent it the US where it was put into flying operation and used for intelligence purposes.
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Source Flickr Lundstrom, John B. (2005 (New edition)) First Team And the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942, Naval Institute Press ISBN 1-59114-472-8, p. 534.
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