Japan's Desperate Last Dogfight

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August 15th, 1945. Lt Howard ‘Howdy’ Harrison leads a flight of six F6F Hellcats on a fighter sweep of Atsugi Airfield near Tokyo, on the very last day of the Second World War. Just as they are about to attack, they receive news that Japan has surrendered and the war is over. However, in the skies above them, the war is not over for the Japanese fighter ace Lt Yutaka Morioka (森岡 豊). A one-armed veteran pilot of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Morioka ignores the ceasefire and leads the Japanese fighters into the final battle against the Americans, in what becomes the last dogfight of WW2.

Historical sources:

Wukowits, John (2019). Dogfight Over Tokyo: The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men To Die In World War II
Izawa, Yasuho & Holmes, Tony (2016). J2M Raiden and N1K1/2 Shiden/Shiden-Kai Aces
Tillman, Barrett (16/12/2025). “Last Air Battles of World War II”. HistoryNet https://www.historynet.com/last-air-battles-of-world-war-ii/.

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00:00 F6F Hellcats approach Atsugi Airfield
01:06 Japanese ambush Hellcats
03:02 F6F Hellcat locks on A6M Zero
05:31 Americans down Japanese fighters
06:22 Lt.(jg) Sahloff and Ens. Mandeberg under heavy fire
08:32 Lt. Harrison & Ens. Hobbs ambushed by Lt. Morioka’s squadron
10:42 Surviving US pilots reach USS Yorktown

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