Naoshi Kanno

Naoshi Kanno
Naoshi Kanno waiting his turn during training at Lake Kasumigaura
(June 1942, 38th class flight student)
NicknamesBulldog
Yellow Fighter
Kanno the Destroyer
Born(1921-09-23)23 September 1921
Pyongyang, (Korea under Japanese rule), Japan
Died1 August 1945(1945-08-01) (aged 23)
Off Yakushima, Ōsumi Islands, Japan
AllegianceEmpire of Japan
BranchImperial Japanese Navy
Service years1943–1945
RankCommander
Unit343rd Naval Air Group
ConflictsWorld War II

Naoshi Kanno (Japanese: 菅野直, 23 September 1921 – 1 August 1945) was a Japanese fighter ace in World War II. He is credited with 25 confirmed kills.

Piloting his Shiden-Kai, which had yellow stripes painted on its fuselage, he invented the "anti-large bomber tactic" of flipping over and diving headfirst vertically into the enemy aircraft from an altitude of more than 1,000 meters ahead of it, attacking it from directly above. So, he was feared by the pilots of large fighter planes of the US military and was nicknamed the "Yellow Fighter."

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