page_title: Isamu Mochizuki
hierarchical_section_title: Isamu Mochizuki
caption_attribution_description: English: Imperial Japanese Navy fighter ace Lieutenant Isamu Mochizuki. He was officially credited with seven solo fighter combat victories in the Sino-Japanese and Pacific Wars. This picture is of Mochizuki at the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade.
context_page_description: Isamu Mochizuki was an officer and ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific theater of World War II. He was officially credited with destroying ten enemy aircraft over China and the Pacific. He is famous for inventing the hineri-komi half-loop-and-roll technique that was employed in dogfighting by many Japanese fighter pilots.
context_section_description: Isamu Mochizuki (望月 勇, Mochizuki Isamu, 1906 – 6 February 1944) was an officer and ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific theater of World War II. He was officially credited with destroying ten enemy aircraft over China and the Pacific. He is famous for inventing the hineri-komi half-loop-and-roll technique that was employed in dogfighting by many Japanese fighter pilots.
caption: Mochizuki at the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade
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