Kiro Honjo
Kiro Honjo (本庄 季郎 Honjō Kirō) (1901–1990) was a Japanese aircraft designer who worked for Mitsubishi and designed aircraft used in World War II such as the Mitsubishi G3M (Nell) and the Mitsubishi G4M (Betty).[1]
He was portrayed in the 2013 Japanese animated movie The Wind Rises as a colleague of the designer of the Zero fighter, Jiro Horikoshi.
References
- ↑ Osamu Tagaya, Mitsubishi type 1 Rikko 'Betty' units of World War 2
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