I don’t buy the 300 bombers claim. That means the rest of Japans air defenses destroyed almost none.
No idea myself, my old man used to have a couple of fantastic in depth books about the fire bombing of Japan i read as a teen and i've never been able to find out whay they were. They would have been at least '70's publications, and have probably been surpassed by now anyway. I reckon we could dig out some pretty good stats from the net.
Imagine being a 17 to 18 yr old kid. You get a few hours basic flight training and you get one of these monsters to "fly and kill the gaijin!" Same for the German kids..."save the fatherland".
Just talking about the "Oh FRAC" factor, not the right/wrong or the politics of it the war.
Awesome models man. Seriously.
Yeah um, thanks but no thanks, i'll tend my farm out in the wilderness, sir
