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English: US military personnel inspect a Japanese Zero aircraft piloted by Tadayoshi Koga that crashed on Akutan Island after bombing Dutch Harbor on June 4, 1942. The Zero was later shipped to the United States and put into flying condition for intelligence purposes. Koga was killed in the crash.
日本語: 1942年6月4日のダッチハーバー攻撃後にアクタン島に不時着した零戦(搭乗員は古賀忠義一飛曹、不時着時に死亡)を検分するアメリカ軍。機体はアメリカ本土に送られ、零戦研究に利用された。
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Source Flickr Dickrell, Jeff (2001) Center of the Storm: The Bombing of Dutch Harbor and the Experience of Patrol Wing Four in the Aleutians, Summer 1942, Missoula: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN: 1575100924. OCLC: 50242148. , p. 77.
Author Navy photographer's mate Arthur W. Bauman
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Book states that the photo is from the US National Archives

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