n view of the vast area of the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II, it is somewhat ironic that the four-engine, long-range strategic bomber is conspicuous by its near absence from Japan’s operational inventory. Moreover, while the Japanese Army Air Force was content with twin-engine medium bombers, it was the navy that was obsessed with the development of long-range multiengine strike aircraft. That was because Japanese naval strategy was predicated upon the premise that as the larger U.S. Navy made its way across the Pacific, its strength would be systematically whittled down by a
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