Original Imperial Japanese WWII Signed Print of Navy Flying Ace Saburō Sakai by Lon Ortega - 16 x 20” Original Display Machine Guns It is held in place

It is held in place by the earlier threaded bolt system with is using a leather square to retain only one of the threaded posts

seldom encountered on the collector’s market

with a brass handle and original scabbard

stamps on the metal pieces of the scabbard

589 (485 killed

Original Imperial Japanese WWII Signed Print of Navy Flying Ace Saburō Sakai by Lon Ortega - 16 x 20” Original Display Machine Guns It is held in placeOriginal Item. Only One Available. Saburo Sakai was born in Saga, Japan into a family of samurai ancestry but made a living as farmers. Sakai's father passed away when he was 11. He joined the Japanese Navy on 31 May 1933 when he was 16. Upon graduation, he served as a turret gunner aboard battleship Kirishima. In 1936, he left Kirishima to join the pilot training program. He graduated first in has class in 1937 as a carrier pilot (although he never