Tetsuzō Iwamoto

Tetsuzō Iwamoto (岩本 徹三code: ja is deprecated , Iwamoto Tetsuzō) (15 Juni 1916 – 20 Mei 1955) adalah seorang pilot pesawat tempur Pasukan Udara Angkatan Laut Kekaisaran Jepang. Dia memasuki Angkatan Laut Kekaisaran Jepang pada tahun 1934 dan menyelesaikan pelatihannya pada bulan Desember 1936. Pertempuran pertamanya terjadi di Tiongkok pada awal 1938. Dia menjadi sebagai penerbang ulung Kekaisaran Jepang dengan skor bunuh tertinggi selama Perang Dunia II, yang mendapat kepercayaan setidaknya 87 kemenangan udara termasuk 14 kemenangan di Tiongkok. Selanjutnya, dia menerbangkan Mitsubishi A6M Zero dari kapal Zuikaku dari bulan Desember 1941 sampai Mei 1942, termasuk di Pertempuran Laut Koral. Pada akhir 1943, grup udara Iwamoto dikirim ke Rabaul, Britania Baru, melakukan pertempuran udara selama tiga bulan melawan serangan udara Sekutu.

Tetsuzo Iwamoto
Julukan	As Tempur Zero Kotetsu "Macan Tetsu"
Lahir	(1916-06-15)15 Juni 1916 Karafuto, Jepang (Sakhalin, Rusia)
Meninggal	20 Mei 1955(1955-05-20) (umur 38) Masuda, Jepang
Pengabdian	Empire of Japan
Dinas/cabang	Pasukan Udara Angkatan Laut Kekaisaran Jepang
Lama dinas	1934–1945
Pangkat	Letnan Junior
Perang/pertempuran	Perang Tiongkok-Jepang Kedua Perang Dunia II
Penghargaan	Order of the Golden Kite kelas ke-5 Order of the Rising Sun, Green Paulownia Leaves Medal - 7th Class

Catatan kaki

Daftar pustaka

• Iwamoto, Tetsuzo (194x-?). Iwamoto air combat log notebooks (posthumous detail manuscripts in 3 volumes of notebooks, found 1970s from his family), 1939-1945. 
• Iwamoto, Tetsuzo (Feb 25, 1986) [1st. pub. July 10, 1972]. Zero-sen Gekitsui-Oh (artinya, Zero Fighter Ace, based on the posthumous manuscripts). Kyo-no-wadai-sha. ISBN 4-87565-121-X. 
• Tsunoda, Kazuo (1990). Shura no Tsubasa (artinya, The Asura's Wing). Tokyo: Kohjin-sha. ISBN 4-7698-1041-5. 
• Odaka, Noritsura (1985). Seishun Zerosen Tai (artinya, Young Zero Fighters). Tokyo: Kohjin-sha. ISBN 0-14-016561-4. 
• Kusaka, Ryunosuke (Apr 1952). Rengō Kantai (which translates as "Grand Fleet" or "Combined Fleet"). Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha (Mainichi Newspaper). 
• Zero Fighter Pilots Association (2004). "Saburo Abe's chapter, Spitfire Gekitsui-Ki (artinya, My combat against Spitfires on the VJ-day)". ZeroSen, Kaku Tatakaeri! (artinya, We are Zero fighter pilots, these were our fights!). Tokyo: SeishunNesco-sha. 
• Zero Fighter Pilots Association (1987). "List of naval fighter pilots where he died, who survived". Kaigun Sentokitai-Shi (artinya, Our History of Naval Fighter Units). Tokyo: Hara-shobo. ISBN 4-562-01842-9. 
• Izawa, Yasuho; Hata, Ikuhiko (1971). Kohku-Jyoho, Nippon Kaigun SentouKi Tai (artinya, The Japanese Naval Fighter Units in World War II). KanToh-sha. 
• Hata, Ikuhiko; Izawa, Yasuho (1987). Japanese Naval Aces and Fighter Units in World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. 
• Isozaki, Chitosi (1986). Maru Magazine, Chokuei Sentouki-Tai Solomon ni Hateru tomo (artinya, Although we escourt fighter unit pilots had to die over the battle of Solomon). Tokyo: Ushio-shoboh. 
• Abe, Masaharu (December 1993). Maru Magazine exstra issue, Watashi ga mita futari no gekitsui-oh (artinya, Two Aces I met - Nishizawa and Iwamoto). Tokyo: Ushio-shoboh. 
• Takizawa, Kenji (Dec 1984). Maru Magazine, Toyoh Zerosen-Tai Simatsu-Ki (artinya, The beginning and the end of Zero Fighter Unit attacking overseas to Saipan). Tokyo: Ushio-shoboh. 
• Nakayama, Mitsuo (July 1981). Maru Magazine, B-24 hunter champion, Zero Fighter type52, my one hundred days of combat report. Ushio-shoboh. 
• Shibata, Takeo (1981). Maru Magazine, Hittsui Senten Sempoh Kotohajime (artinya, The Beginning of IJNAF Quick Roll tactics, I developed). Tokyo: Ushio-shoboh. 
• Genda, Minoru (2002). Kaigun Kokutai Simatsu-Ki, Hasshin (artinya, The Rise and Fall of IJNAF, first volume -TakeOff-). Bunshun-bunko. 
• Sakaida, Henry. Imperial Japanese Navy Aces 1937-45. Ospray. ISBN 1-85532-727-9. 
• Shores, Christopher; Norman Franks; Russell Guest (January 1991). Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces, 1915-1920. London: Grub Street. ISBN 978-0-948817-19-9. 
• Franks, Norman L. R.; Frank W. Bailey (May 1992). Over the Front: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the United States and French Air Services, 1914-1918. London: Grub Street. 
• Tillman, Barrett. "Ch.9 victory credits and wildcat evaluation". Wildcat Aces of World War 2. Ospray. 
• Andrew, Thomas (1992). "appendices ace list - Royal Navy Aces". Royal Navy Aces of World War 2. Ospray. ISBN 978-1-84603-178-6. 

Film

• Nippon Eiga-sha, Feb.16, 1944, Nippon News No.194 Solomon no Gekisen Nankai-Kessenjo (artinya, Southern Ocean Battle Fields of Solomon)
• Nippon Eiga-sha, Feb.2, 1944, Nippon News No.192 Rabaul (artinya, Fortress Rabaul)