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Devildog73 said:
Remember Brother O, by the time the 7 series took to the air there were very few experienced pilots left in the Imperial Japanese Army and Naval Air Forces.

These babies were being flown by inexperienced babies of the Empire. The 7s probably overwhelmed their skills.

When I add them to the missions of the BPF, they will be flown by rookies against veterans and aces.
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Good point there DD73. There were a few experienced pilots, but some of those pilots had been wounded in previous battles. Saburo Sakai with one eye, but still flew combat and also Yutaka Morioka who is credited with five aircraft the last couple weeks of the war, with a hook on his left arm. The Japanese Naval pilot training was strict and only accepted the very best aviators during the early years of the conflict. That washed out a number of aviators and helped contribute to the shortage of experienced pilots toward the last part of war (It is what I read in Sakai's autobiography). Plus the fact of course that range and manuevarability took precedence over pilot armor and self-sealing fuel tanks, which also caused a loss of pilots with the earlier aircraft types.

Cheers,
O
 
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