MILITARY PERSONNEL

Hiroyoshi Nishizawa

1920 - 1944

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Lieutenant Junior Grade Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (西澤 広義, Nishizawa Hiroyoshi; January 27, 1920 – October 26, 1944) was a Japanese naval aviator and an ace of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II. Nishizawa was known to his colleagues as 'the Devil' for his breathtaking, brilliant, and unpredictable aerobatics and superb control of his aircraft while in combat. He was a member of the Tainan Kōkūtai's famous "clean up trio" with fellow aces Saburō Sakai and Toshio Ōta and would see action in the New Guinea campaign as well as in the aerial battles over Guadalcanal and over the Solomon Islands. He was killed in 1944 during the Philippines Campaign while aboard an IJN transport aircraft. It is possible that he was the most successful Japanese fighter ace of the war, reportedly telling his last CO that he had achieved a tally of 86 or 87 aerial victories- post war he was linked with scores of 147 or 103, but both of these scores have been considered inaccurate. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hiroyoshi Nishizawa is the 906th most popular military personnel (down from 846th in 2019), the 711th most popular biography from Japan (down from 591st in 2019) and the 58th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa ranks 906 out of 2,058. Before him are Karl Mauss, Osami Nagano, Zygmunt Berling, Gaius Laelius, Dominique Vandamme, and Kosta Pećanac. After him are Erich Rudorffer, Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, Hermocrates, Adolphe Marbot, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Walther von Lüttwitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa ranks 130. Before him are José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Zhou Xuan, Renato Carosone, Pierre Plantard, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, and Albert Memmi. After him are Saul Bass, Eva Dahlbeck, Miguel Delibes, Henrietta Lacks, Marie Tharp, and Andrew V. McLaglen. Among people deceased in 1944, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa ranks 130. Before him are Fritz Pfeffer, Pavel Haas, Amy Beach, Zinaida Portnova, Josef Bürckel, and Kosta Pećanac. After him are Emanuel Ringelblum, Paul Hazard, Agustín Barrios, Charles Diehl, Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, and Dietrich Kraiss.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa ranks 711 out of 6,245. Before him are Nitobe Inazō (1862), Toyohiro Akiyama (1942), Osami Nagano (1880), Hōnen (1133), Taro Kagawa (1922), and Shusaku Hirasawa (1949). After him are Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758), Hirokazu Kore-eda (1962), Takashi Murakami (1962), Mikio Naruse (1905), Ikuo Takahara (1957), and Ii Naosuke (1815).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa ranks 58. Before him are Shūmei Ōkawa (1886), Minamoto no Yorimasa (1106), Minamoto no Yoshitomo (1123), Ōtani Yoshitsugu (1559), Gunichi Mikawa (1888), and Osami Nagano (1880). After him are Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758), Nakano Takeko (1847), Wakisaka Yasuharu (1554), Hōjō Ujiyasu (1515), Takasugi Shinsaku (1839), and Matome Ugaki (1890).

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