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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 ...
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 ...
The following is a list of Japanese military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels, and other support equipment of both the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from operations conducted from start of Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the end of World War II in 1945. [1]
Complete Book of World War II Combat Aircraft (1988) 414pp; Angelucci, Enzo. The Rand McNally Encyclopedia Of Military Aircraft, 1914-1980 (1988) 546pp; includes production data; Harrison, Mark, ed. The economics of World War II: six great powers in international comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2000) Overy, Richard (2016).
The Mitsubishi F1M (Allied reporting name "Pete") is a Japanese reconnaissance floatplane of World War II. It was the last biplane type of the Imperial Japanese Navy, with 944 built between 1936 and 1944. The Navy designation was "Type Zero Observation Seaplane" (零式水上観測機).
Yokosuka P1Y "Frances" shot down next to USS Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) by 0945 on December 15, 1944. [4]The first flight was in August 1943. Nakajima manufactured 1,002 examples, which were operated by five Kōkūtai (Air Groups), and acted as land-based medium and torpedo bombers from airfields in China, Taiwan, the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, the Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku, and Kyūshū.