The Cockpit
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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