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Title: 201st Fighter Group A6M2
Post by: Greebo on July 26, 2011, 07:18:43 AM: This is my skin of the A6M2 of Lt Yukio Seki of the 201st Naval Fighter Group, based in the Phillippines. On 25th October 1944 Seki led a group of five A6M2s in the first successful Kamikaze attack, sinking the light carrier USS St Lo. The photo of Seki's flight taking off on this mission shows a very worn looking aircraft with extensive paint chipping.

Lt Seki was an outspoken critic of Kamikaze tactics, in an interview with a war correspondent he stated: "Japan's future is bleak if it is forced to kill one of its best pilots. I am not going on this mission for the Emperor or for the Empire... I am going because I was ordered to!" and "If they would let me, I could drop a 500 kilogram bomb on the flight deck of a carrier without going in for body-crashing and still make my way back." While on route to his death he was heard to transmit: "It is better to die, rather than to live as a coward."

According to the ace Nishizawa, who was flying escort, and also US personnel's descriptions of the action, it seems Seki's plane struck the carrier USS St Lo, but his plane bounced off into the sea and his bomb failed to explode. It was a second plane of his flight that did the damage that eventually sank the carrier.

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots/201st_Kokutai_A6M2_SC2.jpg)

(http://www.gfg06.dial.pipex.com/screenshots/201st_Kokutai_A6M2_SC1.jpg)
Title: Re: 201st Fighter Group A6M2
Post by: Wildcat1 on July 26, 2011, 12:56:03 PM: Looks good :aok
Title: Re: 201st Fighter Group A6M2
Post by: ink on July 26, 2011, 01:22:35 PM: looks totally awesome :aok
Title: Re: 201st Fighter Group A6M2
Post by: lyric1 on July 26, 2011, 02:20:17 PM: :aok
Title: Re: 201st Fighter Group A6M2
Post by: Citabria on July 26, 2011, 03:43:34 PM: I still don't know how he does it with machine gun speed and quality.

I guess your just the henry ford of the skinning world greebo.
Title: Re: 201st Fighter Group A6M2
Post by: HighTone on July 26, 2011, 03:52:34 PM: Great looking skin Greebo, as always :salute
Title: Re: 201st Fighter Group A6M2
Post by: Tyrannis on July 26, 2011, 03:56:56 PM: it will look ever better burning. :t
Title: Re: 201st Fighter Group A6M2
Post by: JOACH1M on July 26, 2011, 05:07:40 PM: Quote from: Citabria on July 26, 2011, 03:43:34 PM
I still don't know how he does it with machine gun speed and quality.

I guess your just the henry ford of the skinning world greebo.
He is a skinning monster :lol

Great skins greebo!
Title: Re: 201st Fighter Group A6M2
Post by: 007Rusty on July 26, 2011, 05:36:56 PM: wow great job sir :salute :cheers:
Title: Re: 201st Fighter Group A6M2
Post by: Gary26 on July 26, 2011, 06:02:20 PM: Its amazing how good you are at weathering. :cheers:
Title: Re: 201st Fighter Group A6M2
Post by: Mitsu. on July 26, 2011, 07:47:11 PM: Thank you for beatutiful skins, Greebo. :)
Title: Re: 201st Fighter Group A6M2
Post by: mthrockmor on July 26, 2011, 07:51:30 PM: Great skin, better history. Thanks Greebo. I'll add it the few times I fly the Zero out of respect for Lt Seki.

Boo
Title: Re: 201st Fighter Group A6M2
Post by: MotleyCH on July 27, 2011, 07:41:45 PM: Beautiful!