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On 1 November 1944, a United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) F-13 Superfortress conducted the first flight by an Allied aircraft over the Tokyo region of Japan since the Doolittle Raid in April 1942. This photo reconnaissance sortie returned with 7000 photographs which helped with planning air raids on Japan during the last months of World War ...
Aircraft Allied Code name First flown Number built Kyushu J7W Shinden: n/a 3 August 1945 2 Mitsubishi Ki-83: n/a 1944 4 Mitsubishi J8M: n/a 1944 7 Nakajima G8N: Rita 1944 4 Nakajima Ki-87: n/a 1945 1 Tachikawa Ki-94-I: n/a 1944 2 Tachikawa Ki-94-II: n/a n/a 2
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries ... Junkers F 13 [notes 13 ... reconnaissance aircraft Tachikawa Ki-74: Japan ...
The F-13 was the photographic reconnaissance version of the B-29 initially deployed to the Pacific theater in 1944–45. An F-13 conducted the first flight by an Allied aircraft over Tokyo since the Doolittle Raid of April 1942. F-13A was the B-29A model. Carried three K-17B, two K-22 and one K-18 cameras with provisions for others.
From 1943, the Japanese were virtually always on the defensive, while new long-range, high-altitude U.S. aircraft climaxing with the Boeing B-29 Superfortress (F-13 in the reconnaissance role) provided overwhelming American coverage of the Home Islands from mid-1944.
An F-13 Superfortress. Early B-29/B-29As that were modified for photo reconnaissance carried the F-13/F-13A designations, with "F" meaning 'photo'. The aircraft (118 modified B-29BWs and B-29As) carried three K-17B, two K-22 and one K-18 cameras. Between the end of World War II (1945) and 1948 the designation was changed to FB-29J.
Expecting to face a numerically superior fleet, Japan's strategy envisioned using aircraft to help neutralize this advantage by gradual attrition as the enemy USN fleet approached Japan. This required aircraft with extended ranges and striking power, which in turn meant having them be lighter and faster but with less protection. [12]
Mitsubishi F-15DJ: Japan: trainer: 1981: in use: 44: all but twelve license-built by Mitsubishi: Mitsubishi F-X: Japan: fighter: 2031 (planned) in development: 0: Japan's first domestically developed stealth fighter - developed from X-2 Shinshin & i3 fighter concept, to replace Mitsubishi F-2: Mitsubishi MU-2/LR-1: Japan: utility: 1967: retired ...