Nakajima Ki-43

The Nakajima Ki-43 was one of the major Japanese fighter aircrafts of World War II. It was called Oscar by the Allies, but was also sometimes called the 'Army Zero' because allied pilots often mistaken it as the Mitsubishi A6M Zero carrier based fighter aircraft operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy, due to both aircraft bore a certain resemblance to one another. It was used in all major Japaneses operations between 1942 and 1945. After the war it was used by China, France, Indonesia, and North Korea.

Nakajima Ki-43
Nakajima Ki-43.
Role	Fighter aircraft
National origin	Japan.
Manufacturer	Nakajima
First flight	1939
Introduction	1942
Status	Out of service.
Primary user	Japan Air Force.
Number built	5919

Nakajima Ki-43 Media

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  The Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (隼, "Peregrine Falcon") was a single-engine land-based tactical fighter used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in World War II.

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  A downed Ki-43 of the 50th Sentai

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  Schoolgirls wave goodbye to a Ki-43 IIIa, loaded with a 250 kg (550 lb) bomb, on a kamikaze mission, 12 April 1945.

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  A captured Ki-43-IIIa of the 48th Sentai, postwar

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  A captured Ki-43-Ib in flight over Brisbane, 1943

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  Ki-43 at Rabaul in 1945 (later restored by the Flying Heritage Collection)

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  Ki-43 Hayabusa display outside Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots, Minamikyūshū, Kagoshima, Japan

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  Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar flown by the Indonesian side in the War of Independence

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  Ki-43 at the Pima Air and Space Museum