Talk:Tetsuzō Iwamoto

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As far as I know Junichi Sasai (Saburo Sakai`s superior at Rabaul) was known as "the Richthofen of Rabaul."

Veljko Stevanovich 29. 4. 2006 16:10 UTC+1

The current version 5 May 2007 was already corrected, so the stub temprate should be deleted.
 * By reseaching books on the bibliography, folloing sentence was not the case for Tetsuzo IWAMOTO, but Lt. Junichi SASAI who wanted to be known as "the Richthofen of Rabaul" . He was Saburo Sakai's superior officer in Tainan Kokutai(Flying Regiment, Air Group), who died Aug.1942 over Guadalcanal.
 * In that time he reportedly claimed over 40 kills. becoming known as "the Richthofen of Rabaul." 
 * This sentence existed since the first entry, at 19:55, 8 April 2006 with no references cited.

--Shun Zero 05:10, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

WPMILHIST Assessment
An alright start - lots of good information, but poorly organized. Too much of the information is given as bulletpoint lists (Flight log, tactics), and too little in the regular main section paragraphs. In addition, the references and bibliography cite far too much data, rather than being restricted to citations of books and page numbers. WP:CITE offers examples of proper citation technique. LordAmeth 16:03, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you. The rating is changed. Since Wikipedia is the place of encyclopedia and not the place of opinion, I would have had difficulties to edit this article without these many multi-angled informations and citations needed to prove that my series of edits were based on the facts and eliminated fake informations on the Wikipedia in the beginning. I notice some other articles about WW2 aces include some misinformations or few citations. Those should be rated stub-class with the facts researched and presented. Other points like the format on this article will be supported by amended this article later. Thank you. --Shun Zero 03:42, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

the site avionesclasicos.com has a picture of iwamote tetsuzo, maybe we could consider getting that picture instead of the medal, the picture: http://www.avionesclasicos.com/pilotos/iwamoto.jpg Iwamoto 11:09, 1 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I think both his picture and the medal picture would be preferable for military aviator's article. Though I know the following site has his clear picture, I doubt whether we could use it because the book noted the copyright all rights reserved: http://blog.livedoor.jp/nakataka829/archives/10182635.html This famous photo image was photographed at Kagoshima Air Base in April to May 1945 and first appeared in book Zerosen Gekitsuioh (Zero Fighter Ace) by courtesy of his family, published by Kyonowadai-sha on July 10 1973. --Shun Zero 10:59, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Is that really Iwamoto in the picture? He resembles a medal LOL! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.137.121.29 (talk) 20:52, 31 January 2008 (UTC) This article needs to be cleaned up. 59.100.113.152 (talk) 11:19, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Flight time
The text lists Iwamoto's flight time as 8,000 hours in March 1944. That is not possible. If he graduated from pilot training in 1936, he would have to average 1,000 hours a year when 200 or perhaps 300 was far more typical. Also, the reference to US "tripled flight hours" is unknown to me and requires explanation.

BTillman (talk) 22:32, 10 May 2013 (UTC)B Tillman 10 May 13BTillman (talk) 22:32, 10 May 2013 (UTC)