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unusual facts about Tachikawa Ki-74


Secret and special weapons in Showa Japan

Tachikawa Ki-74 Experimental Long Range Reconnaissance Bomber ("Patsy")


Tachikawa Ki-70

The Tachikawa Ki-70 "Clara" was a high speed photo reconnaissance aircraft that was tested for the Japanese Air Force in prototype form but never entered production.

In later years the Ki-70 was used to disprove supposed photographic evidence concerning Amelia Earhart's supposed capture by the Japanese before World War II.

Tachikawa Ki-92

Allied intelligence organizations such as ATAIU SEA were unaware of the existence of the Ki-92 and did not assign a code name to it.


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