A 19-year-old flight petty officer named Tadayoshi Koga took off from the Imperial Japanese Navy carrier Ryujo to join the June 4 attack on Dutch Harbor. He and his strike group of three IJN Zeros ...

Go to the form at the bottom of this story. On June 4, 1942, 19-year-old Flight Petty Officer Tadayoshi Koga launched his Mitsubishi A6M Zero Japanese fighter plane off the deck of the carrier ...

A shot severed the jet's oil line and forced the 19-year-old pilot Tadayoshi Koga in to crash landing in waters around the Akutan Islands in Alaska. Koga died on impact, possibly from a broken neck.