Word: nakajima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Superforts had arrived over Tokyo flying high and riding tail winds that boosted their speed to around 400 m.p.h. The Japs were surprised, their defenses were weak. The big Forts laid a pattern of bombs across the main target, sprawling Nakajima Aircraft plant, eleven miles from Tokyo's center. They saw heart-warming fires spring up, then high-tailed for their island home...
...boys had heard a lot about the Japanese Nakajima plane Type O. The Japanese pursuit could do 300 m.p.h. and was highly maneuverable; it had great fuel capacity. Their own P-405 were of an early model, far from tops. They knew, too, they would be outnumbered: but it was up to them to prove a thesis that once had seemed beyond question: that man for man, plane for plane, anything labeled U.S.A. could whip anything labeled Made-in-Japan...
Planes have also improved. The best types are mostly license-built from foreign designs: Heinkel 113 (385 m.p.h.), a heavy Junkers (155 m.p.h. with 2,200-lb bomb-load), the Nakajima I (Boeing-type bomber); and as fighters Devoitine 510 and Nakajima C-98 (352 m.p.h.). Japan has about 1,000 planes in China (400 fighters, 300 observation, 300 bombers) and about 5,800 altogether (2,350 fighters, 1,900 observation and transport, 1,550 bombers). About 2,100 military pilots and 1,000 civilian pilots are trained every year. Contrary to the old canard about Japanese pilots not being...