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Hitachi Aircraft Company (Hitachi Kokuki KK)
Corporation Report No. VII — Airframes and Engines
United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Aircraft Division
February 1947
Original post-World War II United States government report examining the wartime aircraft-production operations of Hitachi Aircraft Company (Hitachi Kokuki KK) in Japan.
Prepared by the United States Strategic Bombing Survey, this report was based on a November 1945 investigation conducted after Japan’s surrender and analyzes Hitachi’s importance within the Japanese aircraft industry, its airframe and engine production, Allied air attacks, production capacity, plant dispersal, and the accuracy of pre-attack Allied intelligence.
The Library of Congress catalogs this as Report No. 22 of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey Pacific War series and Corporation Report No. VII of the Aircraft Division. Library of Congress Tiles
Illustrated throughout with original period photographs, production charts, maps, plant diagrams, and foldout material relating to Hitachi Aircraft Company facilities and wartime aircraft production. Despite the report’s significant moisture damage, much of the valuable visual and technical content remains present, making this an unusually complete research copy of a scarce original USSBS corporate report.
Report Details
- Title: Hitachi Aircraft Company (Hitachi Kokuki KK)
- Series: United States Strategic Bombing Survey
- Corporation Report No.: VII
- Subject: Airframes and Engines
- Division: Aircraft Division
- Date of survey: November 1945
- Date of publication: February 1947
- Pagination: v + 67 pages
- Includes illustrations, tables, diagrams, and maps, some originally issued as foldouts Library of Congress Tiles
Contents include
- The corporation and its importance in the aircraft industry
- Allied air attacks
- Production statistics
- Evaluation of pre-attack intelligence
- Planned, actual, and capacity production
- Hitachi Tachikawa plant material
- Plant organization and dispersal information Wikimedia Commons
A scarce original primary-source document for collectors and researchers interested in World War II aviation, Japanese aircraft production, U.S. military intelligence, strategic bombing, and the postwar occupation of Japan.
