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◀ DOUGLAS A-20 HAVOC
Crew of two Date 1942 Origin US
Wingspan 61 ⁄3ft (18.7m)
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Length 48ft (14.6m)
Top speed 340mph (549kph)
Engine Two 1,700hp (1,267.7kW)
Wright R2600-A Twin Cyclone radials BOMBER AIRCRAFT
The Havoc—“Boston” to the British
RAF, which also operated it—was
intended as a light/attack bomber,
but also saw service as a night-fighter.
A total of almost 7,500 were built
2,000lb (910kg) by Douglas and Boeing between late
Cockpit accommodated of bombs carried 1939 and September 1944.
pilot and navigator internally
side-by-side

Turbojets mounted Pilot navigated without
below each wing a co-pilot 1943–1945

▲ ARADO AR 234B-2 The second turbojet to enter service
with the Luftwaffe, the Ar 234B-2 first flew
Three-bladed Date 1944 Origin Germany
variable-pitch propeller Wingspan 46 ⁄4ft (14.1m) in June 1943. Within a year it had proved
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to be a capable reconnaissance aircraft,
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Length 41 ⁄2ft (12.63m) and while this became its main role, it
Top speed 460mph (740kph) also flew a number of bombing missions,
most notably an attempt to destroy the
Engine Two 1,985lb (900kg) Junkers last remaining Rhine Bridge at Remagen.
Jumo 004B-1 turbojets
Pilot very exposed in
torpedo-like airframe

Warhead contained 2,650lb ▲ YOKOSUKA MXY7 OHKA The Ohka was a manned flying bomb
(1,200kg) of Amatol high explosive powered by three solid-fuel rocket
Date 1944 Origin Japan
motors. It was intended to be used
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▼ BOEING B-29A SUPERFORTRESS The largest and most capable of the Allies’ Wingspan 16 ⁄4ft (5.12m) against warships, and was carried to its
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Date 1944 Origin US strategic bombers, with pressurized fuselage Length 19 ⁄4ft (6.06m) target below a mother-aircraft—usually a
and remotely controlled guns, the B-29A Top speed 575mph (927kph) Mitsubishi G4M “Betty.” Around 850 of
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Wingspan 141 ⁄4ft (43.1m) first flew in September 1942, and was the Ohka were produced, but only seven
Length 99ft (30.2m) operational against targets in Japan (from Engine Three 587lb (266kg) Type 4 of them sank or damaged US ships. Several
rocket motors
Top speed 357mph (575kph) a base in China) from June 1944. Its most more successful kamikaze (see p.342) attacks
famous missions were those that saw nuclear were carried out by conventional aircraft.
Engine Four 2,200hp (1,640kW) Wright
R-3350-23 Duplex Cyclone radials bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of
Hiroshima (see pp.378–79) and Nagasaki.

Remote-controlled ventral turret
housed two .5in machine-guns Pressurized fuselage