But that aircraft flew with that air force. . .
Incidentally, before and during WWII, the Imperial Jap military used US aircraft, and not as captured aircraft.
The IJN Shouwa L2D Type 0 transport plane, nicknamed Tabby by Allies, was a license-produced DC-3 / C-47 with domestic engines.
51 of up to 496 of them survived WWII.
http://www.skynet-1.com/navy/07.html
has a photo at
http://www.skynet-1.com/navy/photo/l2d2.jpg
(I was at a model shop last week during the Chinese New Year holidays, and saw an aircraft model box (by Hasegawa) with a familiar aircraft, but a Jap name, and thought it was a post-WWII import.
Another item I learnt from gawking at the model boxes was the Number 3 “Tako” air-to-air bomb (yes, bomb, not rocket) used by the Jap Zero fighters at Rabaul and Solomons.)
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