Isamu Mochizuki
Military Person
1906 –
Who is Isamu Mochizuki?
Isamu Mochizuki was an officer and ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific theater of World War II. In aerial combat over China and the Pacific, he was officially credited with destroying seven enemy aircraft. During his flying career, Mochizuki invented the half loop and roll technique used in dogfighting by Japanese fighter pilots. He was stranded on Roi-Namur Island with no aircraft to fly after the American invasion on 6 February 1944. Mochizuki disappeared and was presumed killed in action in ground combat with the enemy.
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