Keywords: E13A-24s.jpg According tailcode 58-081 this should be E13A1 from Kokutai 958 cca 1943 958th Ku operated in Rabaul area with forward bases Rekata Bay and Shortland Source Warbirds site http //www ijnafpics com/jbwe131 htm No copyright claimed on Warbirds site 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 08 05 7 June 2006 UTC PD-Japan-oldphoto Aichi E13A |