Kiyonobu Suzuki (ace)
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Kiyonobu Suzuki | |
---|---|
File:Kiyonobu Suzuki.jpg
Suzuki while serving with the 12th Air Group in China between March and September 1938
|
|
Born | 1914 Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan |
Died | 26 October 1942 South Pacific |
Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
Service/branch | ![]() |
Years of service | 1933-1942 |
Rank | Warrant Officer |
Battles/wars | Second Sino-Japanese War Pacific War |
Kiyonobu Suzuki (Japanese: 鈴木 清延; 1914 – 26 October 1942) was a warrant officer and ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific theater of World War II. In aerial combat over China and the Pacific he was officially credited with destroying nine enemy aircraft. As a member of the aircraft carrier Jun'yō's fighter group, Suzuki was killed in action on 26 October 1942 during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
References
- Hata, Ikuhiko (1975 (original) 1989 (translation)). Japanese Naval Aces and Fighter Units in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-315-6. Unknown parameter
|coauthors=
ignored (help); Check date values in:|date=
(help)
![]() |
This biographical article related to the military of Japan is a stub. You can help Infogalactic by expanding it. |
Categories:
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles containing Japanese-language text
- Pages with citations using unsupported parameters
- CS1 errors: dates
- Use dmy dates from December 2010
- 1914 births
- 1942 deaths
- Japanese naval aviators
- Japanese World War II flying aces
- People from Fukuoka Prefecture
- Japanese military personnel killed in World War II
- All stub articles
- Japanese military personnel stubs