WOW313 Kawasaki Ki 61 'Tony' Silver
WOW313 Kawasaki Ki 61 'Tony' Silver

WOW313 Kawasaki Ki 61 ‘Tony’ (Silver)

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jjjsggfddsThe Kawasaki Ki-61 is a Japanese World War II fighter aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service. The Japanese Army designation was “Army Type 3 Fighter”. Allied intelligence initially believed Ki-61s were Messerschmitt Bf 109s and later an Italian Macchi C.202, which led to the Allied reporting name of “Tony”, assigned by the United States War Department. It was the only mass-produced Japanese fighter of the war to use a liquid-cooled inline V engine and Over 3,000 Ki-61s were produced.

The Ki-61 looked so different than the usual radial-engined Japanese fighters that the Allies at first believed it to be of German or Italian origin, possibly a licence-built Messerschmitt Bf 109. The new Japanese fighter caused some pain and consternation among Allied pilots, particularly when they found out the hard way that they could no longer out dive and escape as they had from lighter Japanese fighters. General George Kenney the Allied air forces commander in the Southwest Pacific, found his Curtiss P-40s completely outclassed, and begged for more Lockheed P-38 Lightnings to counter the threat of the new enemy fighter.

Our silver warbird was flown by Mitsuo Oyake Lt Yoshihiro Aoki. A Japanese pilot credited with downing 4 x B-29 Superfortress (one by ramming in mid air) 

The pilot figure shown is from King & Country and is shown for scale reference purposes only.

 

 

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