The first B-29 flew over Tokyo on 1 November 1944. It was a
photographic reconnaissance aircraft ironically named 'Tokyo Rose'.
The Ki.44 fighters of the 47th Sentai took off to intercept it but
as it turned out the Superfortress flew at such an altitude and
speed that they could not reach it. The Ki-44-II-Otsu had been
specifically designed for this type of interception and could reach
the astonishing rate of climb of 5,000 m in four minutes; however
it was not good enough. During the following ten months, a
devastating bombing campaign of thousands of Superfortress
destroyed 67 Japanese cities and half of Tokyo. The cultural shock
and the political consequences were huge, when it was realised that
the Japanese industry was not able to produce the specially heat
and stress-resistant metallic alloys that were required to
manufacture the turbo superchargers needed by the fighters in
charge of defending the Japanese mainland. They lacked the
essential chromium and molybdenum metals to harden the steel. This
fact thwarted the manufacturing of numerous advanced projects of
both conventional fighters and those derived from the transfer of
German technology fitted with turbojets and rocket engines. They
are thoroughly described in this book.
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