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Akashi

Akashi (134.98E 34.66N) is a port on Japan's Inland Sea. Kawasaki K.K. had a factory here that produced Ki-45 Nick and Ki-36 Ida aircraft.

Kawasaki K.K. Aircraft Plant

The production schedule of this aircraft plant was approximately as follows:

Aircraft Type	Airframes Per Month	Starting Month	Ending Month
Ki-45 Nick	51	1942-9	1944-12
Ki-36 Ida	4	<1941-12	1942-11

On 19 January 1944, this factory was heavily damaged in the last daylight Superfortress raid conducted by Hansell before his relief by LeMay. Some 62 B-29s dropped 152.5 tons of bombs under unusually favorable weather conditions. However, most of the machine tools survived to be moved to different locations, an illustration of the unexpected resilience of machine tools to high explosives.

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Kakogawa

Kobe

References

Francillon (1979)
Frank (1999)

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