Was the Nakajima Ki-49 'Helen' World War 2 bomber a terrible aircraft? And why didn't Japan have truly heavy bombers?
Despite over 800 being built, today the Nakajima Ki-49 bomber remains out of the historical limelight. Appropriately for such a seemingly introverted machine, it was assigned the almost comically innocuous codename 'Helen', after the wife of an Allied intelligence officer in the Pacific Southwest. In service with the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service and operating…
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