Kanichi Kashimura

Kanichi Kashimura (樫村 寛一) (July 5, 1913 – March 6, 1943) was an Imperial Japanese Navy Naval Ace of the Second Sino-Japanese and Second World War.

On December 9, 1937, in a dogfight over China, he collided with a Chinese Curtiss P-36 Hawk. Despite losing part of one wing, he flew his damaged plane back to his airbase.

On March 6, 1943 he was shot down by a US aircraft near the Russell Islands.