Unlike the Americans, who treated their airbases with DDT, the Japanese had no similar solution.
VMF-223 left the island on October 16, 1942 having accounted for 110½ enemy aircraft shot down including that of Japanese ace Junichi Sasai.
Junichi Suwabe | Ryuji Sasai | Junichi Sato | Junichi Sasai | Junichi Nakatsuru | Junichi Miyashita | Junichi Ishida | Junichi Inagaki | Junichi Hirokami |