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| Ki-43-II Hayabusa fighter at rest, circa 1942 | Ki-43-IIa Hayabusa fighter at rest, post-Oct 1942 |
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| USAAF 3rd Bomb Group photographer George Tackaberry and another man with a wrecked Japanese Ki-43 fighter, Nadzab Airfield, Australian New Guinea, early 1944 | Destroyer USS Helm repelling a special attack from a Nakajima Ki-43 'Oscar' fighter off Luzon, Philippines, 5 Jan 1945. The photo was taken from the carrier USS Steamer Bay. |
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| Souvenir hunters on Iwo Jima sawing the propeller off of a wrecked Japanese Nakajima Ki-43 "Oscar" fighter, Mar 1945. They said they would make paper weights out of it later. | High school girls from Chiran, Kagoshima, Japan waving cherry blossom branches to bid farewell to Lt Toshio Anazawa of Japanese Army 20th Shinbu Special Attack Unit in Ki-43 Hayabusa, 12 Apr 1945 |
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