| 词条 | Sadamu Komachi |
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|name= Sadamu Komachi |birth_date={{Birth date|df=y|1920|4|18}} |death_date={{death date and age|df=y|2012|7|15|1920|4|18}} |birth_place= Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan |death_place= |image=Sadamu Komachi.jpg |caption=Komachi aboard the carrier Shōkaku in early 1942. |nickname= |allegiance= Empire of Japan |branch= Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (IJN) |serviceyears= |rank= Warrant Officer |commands= |unit= Shōkaku Ōmura Air Group 204th Air Group 253rd Air Group Yokosuka Air Group |battles=World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor Indian Ocean raid Battle of the Coral Sea Battle of the Eastern Solomons Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands Solomon Islands Campaign Operation Hailstone Battle of the Philippine Sea |awards= |laterwork= }}{{Japanese name|Komachi}}{{nihongo|Sadamu Komachi|小町 定|Komachi Sadamu|extra=18 April 1920 – 15 July 2012}} was an ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Participating in many of the Pacific War battles and campaigns as a member of several units, Komachi was officially credited with destroying 18 enemy aircraft. Sadamu Komachi was born in 1920 in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. He was the third son of a part-farming, part-merchant family. He joined the training program for naval marines at Kure naval base in 1938. He was briefly stationed on a battleship Fuso. He applied for and was accepted to a naval pilot training program and graduated from the 49th class in June 1940. After the graduation he was assigned to a fighter squadron based in Ōmura airbase in Nagasaki Prefecture on Kyushu. He first flew A6M Zero fighter in the autumn of 1940. He was reassigned to the aircraft carrier Akagi in October 1940 for carrier-based fighter specialization. In May 1941 he was assigned to the fighter squadron of the newly built aircraft carrier Shokaku and in the autumn of the same year took part in naval exercises around Kyushu in preparation for the Attack on Pearl Harbor. During the Attack on Pearl Harbor he was assigned to cover the carrier fleet and therefore did not see any combat. During the Indian Ocean Raid, he was again assigned to cover the carrier fleet. There he saw air combat for the first time and had a dogfight with a British Hurricane fighter. While he managed to hit the enemy fighter was, which started to emit smoke, he could not confirm the crash and was therefore not officially credited with the kill. In May 1942 Petty Officer Third Class Komachi participated in Operation MO that resulted in Battle of Coral Sea. While he was a part of the fighter squadron that was protecting the carrier fleet, he shot down one SBD Dauntless dive bomber and one F4F Wildcat fighter. Additionally, he was credited with 4 shared kills. Since the flight deck of his carrier Shokaku was damaged in the battle, he was forced to land on Zuikaku instead. After the battle, Shokaku was sent to be repaired and therefore IJN 5th Carrier Division did not participate in the subsequent Battle of Midway. In late August of 1942 IJN sent a carrier fleet to Solomon Islands in response to the landing of US marines on Guadalcanal earlier that month. United States Navy (USN) anticipated the counter-offensive and sent its own carrier fleet to the area. During the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, Petty Officer Komachi was assigned to cover the strike force that attacked US carriers. During the attack he witnessed one of the friendly dive bombers catching on fire and crashing into one of the US carriers. In late October of 1942 IJN fleet was again sent to Solomon Islands to support the Imperial Japanese Army ground assault on Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. The USN again responded by sending its own fleet to the area. In the following Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, Petty Officer Komachi was assigned to cover the strike force that sank USN carrier Hornet and badly damaged carrier Enterprise. On the way to the USN carriers, Zuikaku fighter squadron abandoned their assignment to protect the strike force and chased the USN strike force that was heading toward the IJN carriers. Because of this, only the fighter squadron from Shokaku was left to protect the strike force and when they arrived to the USN carriers they were outnumbered by F4F Wildcats that protected the USN fleet. During the lengthy dogfight, Petty Officer Komachi hit a couple of Wildcats, however due to being outnumbered he did not have the time to confirm their crashes and was therefore not officially credited with the kills. He survived the dogfight and proceeded to the meeting point where the dive and torpedo bombers would wait for the fighters in order to lead them back to the friendly carriers. However, when he arrived at the meeting point, the strike force had already left and he was forced to navigate to the carriers on his own during the late afternoon. While it was getting dark, he could not manage to find the carriers, but instead found a cruiser and 4 destroyers. He made an emergency landing on water and was picked up by one of the destroyers. In autumn of 1942 he returned to Ōmura airbase on Kyushu and served as an instructor for fighter pilot specialization. There he married Katsumi Furuta; a woman he met during his training at naval marines. In August 1943 he was transferred to Rabaul airbase in the South Pacific. He was first assigned to the 204th Air Group and then in December he was transferred to the 253rd Air Group. In February 1944 he moved to Truk. He left Truk in June 1944 in order to participate in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. While he was about to land on an airfield on Guam, his fighter was shot down by USN F6F Hellcat fighters. He made an emergency landing on the coast and was afterwards evacuated to Japan as he sustained severe burn injury. Komachi participated in the last Air engagement of World War II 18 August 1945, when he attacked two B-32 Dominators on a photo-reconnaissance mission over Tokyo. One bomber received damage and suffered one crew fatality, but both aircraft returned to Yontan Airfield, Okinawa.[1] In 1992 Komachi attended a symposium at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida about the Battle of the Coral Sea, as a guest panelist. Komachi died of natural causes on 15 July 2012. He was 92.[2] References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/The_Last_to_Die.html?c=y&page=1 |title=The Last to Die | Military Aviation | Air & Space Magazine |publisher=Airspacemag.com |accessdate=2012-07-18}} 2. ^{{cite news | script-title=ja:訃報 | language=Japanese |trans-title=Obituary | work=Sankei Shimbun | date=July 18, 2012 | at=社会面 [society and local news]}}
| last = 川崎 | first = 浹 | year = 2003 | title = ある零戦パイロットの軌跡 (in Japanese) | publisher = トランスビュー | isbn = 4901510177 }}
| last = Hata | first = Ikuhiko |author2=Yasuho Izawa |translator=Don Cyril Gorham | year = 1989 | origyear=1975 | title = Japanese Naval Aces and Fighter Units in World War II | publisher = Naval Institute Press | location = Annapolis, Maryland | isbn = 0-87021-315-6 }}
| last = Sakaida | first = Henry | year = 2002 | title = Aces of the Rising Sun, 1937–1945 | publisher = Osprey Publishing | location = Great Britain | isbn = 1-84176-618-6 }}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Komachi, Sadamu}} 6 : 1920 births|Japanese naval aviators|Japanese World War II flying aces|Military personnel from Ishikawa Prefecture|Imperial Japanese Navy officers|2012 deaths |
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