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Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (* January 27, 1920 – † October 26, 1944) was an ace pilot of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force during World War II. It is possible he was the most successful Japanese fighter ace of the war; he personally claimed to have had 87 aerial victories at the time of his death. Some uncertainty is due to the Japanese habit of recording victories for the pilot's air group rather than the individual after 1941, and the often wildly exaggerated claims of aerial kills that were frequently accepted on all sides. Some sources credit Nishizawa with over one hundred victories.
