B-29 Superfortress vs Ki-44 "Tojo": Pacific Theater 1944-1945 (Osprey Duel 82)
B-29 Superfortress vs Ki-44 "Tojo": Pacific Theater 1944-1945 (Osprey Duel 82)
2017 | ISBN: 1472818865 | English | 81 Pages | True PDF | 5 MB
2017 | ISBN: 1472818865 | English | 81 Pages | True PDF | 5 MB
By the time the Americans began their aerial bombardment of Japan in 1944, both the JAAF and IJNAF were spent forces. What the Japanese did have though was the Ki-44 "Tojo". Armed with two 40 mm cannon, it was the most heavily armed and feared single-seat fighter to see action against the new American bomber, the B-29 Superfortress. For the bomber crews, they had what they believed was their ‘ace in hole': a fully armed B-29 carried four remotely operated gun turrets and a tail gunner's position, making it the world's most advanced self-defending bomber.