Planes with American Made Engines Attacked Pearl Harbor????
The CAF’s Southern California Wing said, “There is, nevertheless, the fact that Japan had a contract with Pratt & Whitney before WWII in which P&W provided engines for fighter planes and other aircraft. It is therefore conceivable that some of the planes participating in the Pearl Harbor attack could have been powered by American engines.”
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Wouldn't surprise me one bit. 0 -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki changed their attitude...military wanted to fight hand to hand in japan but the Emperor said "NO" 0 -
Little doubt all Japanese radials were based upon American designs. Pilots were trained with US supplied fuel, frames were built with US supplied steel. The embargo of these things is what prompted the attack as we were starving Japan of raw material.
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It is therefore conceivablecould have been powered by American engines
As written, this is nothing more than conjecture.
However, if the writer had actually researched the contracts which existed before the war and actually understood mechanical production, they might have been able to make some cogent remarks.
Yes there was some manufacturing of US, UK and German engine designs:
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Just before the war, Japan had contracts from just about any country that produced an aircraft engine. During the war, they copied or reversed engineered engines from downed or captured airplanes too.Years back at a bike show, someone had a 1936 Harley UL 80ci Flathead the Japanese reverse engineered, except it was a mirror image, everything on the left, was on the right, even the speedo read right to left.
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I don't see how this fact would change anything about it. 0 -
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was the envy of every nation. It was much more advanced than any other long range bomber in use. So much so that the Russians offered to buy a few so they could work over the design. The U.S. refused on all accounts except that during an emergency, 3 of the Superfortresses had to land in Russia after a sortie. While the crews were returned to the U.S. the planes were kept in Russia to be used as models to make exact copies of for their Air Force. Everything was copied exactly fearing that Stalin would kill anyone skipping some innocuous detail, even flak damage.
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Japan went to war with us because we embargoed oil and steel.0 -
I would've thought they were used up in China. Flying Tigers. Whatever made to the South Pacific would've been knock offs. 0 -
A B-29 without the Norden Bomb sight was nothing more than a large cargo plane that could carry heavy loads. I wish my dad were around to ask if the remote control gun sights and fire control system were part of the ditching procedure. I know the bomb sights were pitched.nononsense said:The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was the envy of every nation. It was much more advanced than any other long range bomber in use. So much so that the Russians offered to buy a few so they could work over the design. The U.S. refused on all accounts except that during an emergency, 3 of the Superfortresses had to land in Russia after a sortie. While the crews were returned to the U.S. the planes were kept in Russia to be used as models to make exact copies of for their Air Force. Everything was copied exactly fearing that Stalin would kill anyone skipping some innocuous detail, even flak damage.
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Then of course the MiG 15 used a British engine. 0 -
In 1980 I was walking through one of the hangars at the Confederate Air Force museum in Harlingen, Texas.
I walked past a Messerschmitt BF-109 and glanced at the motor. Hold the bus, that's a Merlin! I found a worker and asked about it, thinking it was some kind of Frankenplane. Turns out it was a license-built HA-1112, built in Spain with a British Merlin. They built 172 of them in '54.0 -
So the Japs still want our military technology when it comes to war fighting but if you want a good built long-lasting automobile well you have to go to Japan. That's Capitalism for you.
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