Word: mitsubishis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...type of Mitsubishi Finsei engine, essentially a copy of the U.S. Pratt & Whitney Wasp with features of the Wright Cyclone and British Bristol Hercules, is used in many of the Zeros. It is a 14-cylinder, double-banked, radial air-cooled engine, rated 1,050 h.p. when run on 95 to 100 octane fuel. Workmanship is spotty; some parts are finely finished, others are very crude. The weakest point is the cooling system; cooling area per cylinder is under 1,000 sq. in. compared to 2,800 in the genuine Wright Cyclone. The propeller is a duplicate...
...success of the raid exceeded our most optimistic expectations." South of Tokyo he left in flames a cruiser or battleship under construction at the Navy yard. At Nagoya he showered incendiary bombs on the Mitsubishi airplane factory and an oil-tank farm. "It appeared to us that practically every bomb reached the target for which it was intended. . . . About 25 or 30 miles to sea the rear gunners reported seeing columns of smoke rising thousands of feet...
...close guess at the duration of the fleet's cruises, could also figure out accurately when the fleet would be back in port again. Supervised by naval officers, this group was paid off by N.Y.K. Co. (steamship lines) and by the famed Japanese industrial trusts, Mitsui and Mitsubishi...