P-40 vs. late war Japanese fighters

[maxs75]

Fer-de-lance,
From your posts above I guess that You have a great knowledge about Japanese and Chinese Air Force during WWII.
I have only poor info about Japanese and Chinese air units in China/Burma during WWII. Can you list for me the unit based there during 1944? Best would be the Order of Battle during october 1944 (Squadron No., aircraft model and, if possible, air base)

Many thanks in advance

Max

[ppopsie]

Fer-de-lance sama,
Thanks & great. I feel like to study myself more about Japanese Army aviation but my side of the basket is too small for now. Very recently Masahiro Nakayama's book 中国的天空 (the sky over China?), one of the first documentary writing about Chinese aviation, was re-published with enhanced details and photos. I wish to have a copy soon.

>commander of the 22nd Sentai Maj. Iwahashi was lost on a strafing attack on Hsi-an Airfield

Was the info about Iwahashi shosa confirmed? It is commonly believed in Japan that Iwahashi was hit from his #2 plane and crashed when strafing the airfield. Ikuhiko Hata wrote about it on one of his books years ago.

Also I would like to point out that the early Ki-84s send to China were from the type's pre-production models (prototypes) which were crafted rather than build both on the airframe and the engine and these said to performed as expected or advertised.

But this fact was well known and sometimes used to describe the condition of the aircraft manufacturing/operation in the late war period in Japan.

[CPWN]

Someone tell me that Chinese pilots reported only light weight P40N-1 could dogfight with Japanese fighters and P40's acceleration was better than Ki-84 prototype which used by 22th sentai in China.