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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 II .
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.
1 November 1944 reconnaissance sortie over Japan: An American F-13 Superfortress conducted the first flight by Allied aircraft over Japan since the Doolittle Raid of April 1942. During the Battle of the Scheldt, British and Canadian forces began Operation Infatuate with the goal of opening the port of Antwerp to shipping.
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries which were ... Japan: 1944: 256: Aichi M6A ... Junkers F 13 [notes 13] Germany ...
The bombing of Tokyo (東京空襲, Tōkyō kūshū) was a series of air raids on Japan launched by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific Theatre of World War II in 1944–1945, prior to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
1944 238 IJA Mitsubishi A5M Navy Type 96 Carrier-based Fighter: Claude 1937 1094 ... List of aircraft of Japan during World War II. Add languages ...
The Japanese military before and during World War II committed numerous atrocities against civilian and military personnel. Its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, prior to a declaration of war and without warning killed 2,403 neutral military personnel and civilians and wounded 1,247 others.
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