Masaichi Kondō

Masaichi Kondō (近藤 政市, Kondō Masaichi) (born August 1917) was an officer and ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific theater of World War II.

He graduated from his pilot training class in 1935 and served with four different carrier-based and two different land-based air groups (kokutai) in China and in the South Pacific.

[1] In aerial combat over China and the Pacific, he was officially credited with destroying 13 enemy aircraft.

He was wounded in a dogfight over the Solomon Islands, spent 15 months in a hospital, and survived the war.

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