¡Dainipponteikoku Kugun Oafu to Senryaku Bakugeki Keikaku(Rekishi Gunzo Shinsho)
¡Hara Toshio / Cho
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[Machine Translation] In the 13th year of the Showa Era (1938). Chikuhei Nakajima, founder of Nakajima Aircraft Company, who had long proposed the establishment of an Air Force, held a meeting with Isoroku Yamamoto, Vice Minister of the Navy, based on this belief. Yamamoto, who was initially opposed to the establishment of the Air Force, presented Nakajima with one condition. He offered Nakajima one condition: the development of an ultra-long-range bomber that would be "sufficient to establish an air force. If this bomber could be developed, Yamamoto assured Nakajima, the Navy would move to establish an air force. In 1939, "Fugaku," an ultra-long-range bomber "sufficient for the establishment of the Air Force," was completed. In 1940, Nakajima was appointed Minister of the Air Force, and Isoroku Yamamoto was appointed Commander-in-Chief. Here, the Imperial Japanese Air Force was born! -The "Fugaku" was completed.
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