Sasai Junichi's experience

1August 7, 942 (Showa 17), it took nearly seven hours to eight and a half hours (more than two thousand kilometers) to fly from the base stationed in rabaul to Guadalcanal Island. On August 14, Sakai wrote his last letter to his family in rabaul. On August 20, the "US Marine Corps" began to use Henderson Airport on Guadalcanal Island, which quickly changed the local air superiority. On August 2 1 day, six "Zero Wars" formations of Sakai Squadron met four F4F "wildcats" on land at an altitude of four kilometers near Savo Island in Solomon Islands. Sakai's troops used their height advantage of 150 meters to attack enemy planes. Although all four planes were hit, they were successfully evacuated to Guadalcanal Island. The fuel for the return trip of Sakai formation is insufficient. 1942 (Showa17) On August 22nd, his record reached 27. In the following days, the troops received attack tasks in succession, and returned to the base many times due to bad weather and other reasons. Sasakawa's body began to show symptoms such as fatigue. On August 26th, as Sasakawa's seventy-sixth mission, 17 bombers under his command in the 90' s War attacked Guadalcanal again and were intercepted by 12 wild cats from the other side. When passing the enemy base, Sasakawa flew to an F4F "wild cat" ready to land. Seeing Sasakawa's zero war, the enemy quickly turned up his nose. Six machine guns with .50 caliber incendiary bombs disintegrated Sasakawa's Zero War under the gaze of hundreds of soldiers on the beach. He is 24 years old. The pilot who shot down Sasakawa well was probably Marion Eugene Carr, the first ace pilot of the US Marine Corps (belonging to VMF-223 wing, shooting down enemy planes 18.5). After the war, Carl served as an instructor. Because of this, he repeatedly told the students not to relax their vigilance before the plane landed.