We can safely conclude this is a photo made by a Japanese National prior to 1956. War damage is not evident, placing the date well before 1956, and there is no reasonable explanation for how a foreign national could take such a close photograph of Japanese military planes, given the extreme security measures the Japanese took with their military operations. -Mak 05:27, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
This image also appeared in René J. Francillion "Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War" - Putnam - 1979
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