The Cockpit

The Cockpit VHS cover.

Video Movie (1993)
Japanese title : ザ・コクピット

Starring:
Ken'yû Horiuchi (Hauptman [Flight Lieutenant] von Rheindars)
Hikaru Midorikawa (Ensign Nogami)
Ichirô Nagai (Godal)
Masâki Okabe (Narrator)

Three short stories (around 30 minutes each) about last fight of some individual Axis soldier.

Note: This is an animated film. The aircraft shown in it are therefore not actual aircraft, however, where a reasonable depiction of an actual aircraft has been created, it has been identified as best as possible.

Slipstream (成層圏気流)

Focke-Wulfe Fw 190 A

First, we see an instrument panel roughly this of a Focke-Wulfe Fw 190 A.

Focke-Wulfe Fw 190 A wearing incomplete Geschwaderkommodore chevron marking. Usually a Kommodore is an Oberst (colonel), not a Hauptman (Flight Lieutenant) like von Rheindars.

Spitfire F Mk XII

Spitfire F Mk XIIs of 41 Sqn. Royal Air Force.

Focke-Wulf Ta 152 H

Action set in August 1944 but the Focke-Wulf Ta 152 operational testing was conducted only in November 1944. The script is about a Tank Ta 152 H but the anime is nearest a shorter wingspan Tank Ta 152 C.

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress

Sonic Boom Squadron (音速雷撃隊)

Curtiss SB2C Helldiver

Mitsubishi G4M & Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka

Last Ohka attack occured on June 1945 but action is set on 6th August 1945. And no Ohka raid involved so many mothership.

Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka

Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero

Grumman F6F Hellcat

Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden-Kai

Mitsubishi G4M2e Model 24 Tei

Knight of the Iron Dragon (鉄の竜騎兵)

Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

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See also

• The Cockpit at IMDb
• The Cockpit at Wikipedia