Light, agile, and deceptively fragile, the Nakajima Ki-43 was Japan’s elegant answer to raw firepower. It danced through the skies with unmatched finesse, but beneath its delicate frame was a deadly ...

More examples of the Ki-43 were produced than any other Japanese Army fighter, with a total of 5,919 aircraft. Records state the 64th Sentai were operating the Ki-43 II variant by February of 1943.

“I always thought a Spitfire was a beautiful plane,” he says ... If you’re really sharp, you might recognize it as a Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa, code-named Oscar. The Oscar was often called ...