Originally posted by Karnak
Read some history.
Yes, Ki-84s couldn't effectively combat it, but J2Ms could.
Also bombing altitudes had to be reduced to 7-8,000ft due to the jet stream over Japan. A lot of bombing took place at night, from low altitude.
Actually they dropped the altitude so they could increase the density of incendary coverage. previous high altitude attempts to bomb Tokyo resulted in less than 16% damage, but one night over Tokyo at 7,000 feet and 60% of the city was destroyed....*in one night* (along with about 150K people) and it only cost the US 1 B-29 that was shot down that night.
In case anyone was wondering, the losses of B-29's in the pacific during WWII were as follows:
74 lost to fighters
54 lost to AAA
19 lost from AAA/Fighter combination
267 lost from "other" (I don't know what other is, but probably if they didn't know what happened to Joe and the rest of the boys......"one minute he was on my right wing, the next moment he was gone" )
personally, the B29 would be perfect in AH if they were perked about the same as the Arado. for the first few weeks there would be an orgy of B29 in the sky and falling out of the air...eventually you would see them about as often as you see arados. And WOW the TA152 would suddenly become a force to reckon with!
