Masaichi Kondō | |
Birth Date: | August 1917 |
Birth Place: | Ehime Prefecture, Japan |
Allegiance: | Empire of Japan |
Branch: | Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJN) |
Rank: | Ensign |
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(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.