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DIBTKEBOTIOH
AFPAC
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AAF
AGF
ASF
081
TAIC
Dir/lnt
Int.Req. Com.
Scientific Branch
Mil.Br
Pac O/B
Air Ind
POLBC Br
Int Lil>
U.S. Strategic Bosb. Survey
(In field)
Spares
Si August
- 1945
J.«^-3ity
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Table of Contents
Page
3ummary 4
Introduction 16
Section I: 24
Jet and roofcet propelled aircraft; Jet and
rocket propulsion units and fuel6 „
Section II: 96
Conventional aircraft; internal combustion
engines; aircraft armament; aircraft equipi^nt*
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Section III: 165
Electronics.
Section IV: 199
Land armaments and ammunition*
Section V: 219
Optical equipment •
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Summary
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Jet "and rocket"' propelled ..aircraft %
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* tj is no^ believed that adequate in~
formation for production of the laE-262 arrived in the Far
East. There is evidence, however, that some information on
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principle.
ese representatives
Unclassified
There is evidence or negotiations
in Italy and Gampini concerning an air
between Japan
arrived in Japan*
.Qonventlonal aircraft s
During the period 1941-43, when surface blockade
running was possible, Japan purchased and shipped to the Far
East various prototype German aircraft. When submarine
m>Qca
weapons, guns, howitzers,
Electronics;
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Optical equipment?
Optical glass has been the subject of a cloae
association between Japan and Germany over a period of years.
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of consideration.
Prior to the outbreak of the Russo"* German war, Japan
acquired considerable quantities of materials in Europe and
shipped them to the Far East through Siberia* Thereafter,
Japan was forced to rely upon surface blockade.! runners for
movement of material to the Far East. With the end of that
channel of supply, certain raw ans manufactured materials of
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special steela, aluminum, lead, platinum, industrial
diamonds and ball bearings all v;ere purchased and shipped
Conclusion*
From the Japanese point of view, the opening up to
Japan of modern German mr equipment end manufacturing
techniques unfortunately coincided with severe x^estrlctions
in blockade running between Europe and the Far East, As a
result, Japan was not able adequately to benefit from Germany «8
more open attitude toward negotiations. Sample German
equipment in the Far East mainly is restricted to items which
were in operational use in the period 1943.-43* Japanese
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Introduction
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either side until after the war. It was intended that as her
contribution, Japan should supply many raw materials to
Germans'; in return, Japan would obtain from Germany materials,
processes, manufacturing rights and technical assistance.
The March 1944 Agreement, which marked a turning
point in the history of Japanese purchases from Germany, was
necessitated by the virtual ending of surface blockade- 3
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was Borne duplication jf inquiry by the two services.
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surface or underwater vessels, the trans-shipment to the
Far Saat of documents and materiel purchased by Japanese
representatives in Germany was tbo responsibility of the
Q-erman Navy.
2•2 • Channel s of supply ;
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Germany 1s to give.
go Technical aid, acquired by Japan in Europe
Cf the information obtained by Japan from Germany,
emphasis apoears to have been placed on improved defensive
strategy, applied particularly to the direction of high-
performance aircraft 5 warning devices and coast and ground
defenses . Considered broadly, the information obtained by
Japan appears to have fallen In the following categories,
listed according to priority of Japanese interest:
(i) Aircraft
(ii) Electronics
(iii)Naval equipment
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SECTION I
Introduction 26
The fciE-262 55
The AR-234 61
The HS-162 61
ThG JU-287 61
Turi^o-jet units 62
Special materials for turbine-blades 66
(a) Tinidur and Chromadur higi-i-duty steel
alloy & *
(b) Ceramics
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Initial Japanese Interest In German jet teohnique
wan in respect
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for (i) MeaserßChmitt jet technicians to be sent to
Japan, (ii) the training of Japanese technicians in
Germany, and (ill) the purchase by Japan of manufacturing
rights for the construction under license of the te£~l63 B
and ME~262 A-l. In making those requests the Japanese
were availing them eel ves of the terms of a Hitler order
that Japan must be given extensive information concerning
future German developments, and of the fact that, in the
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preceding January, Goring had expressed agreement in
principle with the idea of close Japanese- German collabora
tion as regards the latest types of German aircraft and
their manufacture. The Japanese requests were placed
before Goring for a decision. By the beginning of April 44 9
descriptions, survey sketches and illustrations of the
MJfi-163 B and ME- 262 A-l already had been turned over to
Japanese representatives in Germany, although those air
craft still were only under test.
Initially, there appears to have been duplica
tion of inquiry by the Japanese Army and Navy. The
Germans commented on this state of affairs, pointing
out that they had no Intention of making agreements
separately with the two services and that it would seem
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The specific interests of the two services
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aircraft factories, UNCLASSIFIED
even ifa contract for manufacturing
rights had baen concluded, until receipt of special
instructions from the German Air Ministry* It wee not;
until July that order b were issued :?or tho preparation and
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Japanese
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Tfre ME-J63:
Immediately on receipt of information about
Jet and rocket development In Germany, the Japanese in
Germany began to show the greatest interest in the M£-163.
In mid-May Japanese naval representatives in Berlin were
negotiating for complete production plans for the ME-163 9
and for the transfer to Japan of teohnioiane fully
familiar with design and production of the airoraft
and its propulsion unit. By mid-August a considerable
amount of detailed material on the Mhl-163 possibly had
arrived in Tokyo.
MiSnchen
— A captured
manufacturers
file of Eleotroohemisohe Yrferke,
of liquid-rocket chemical fuels-
contains documents which indicate a strong probability
that plans for the Walter HWK 109-509 power unit of the
ME-165 arrived In Japan. Contained in that file is a
letter of 9 August 1944, from Walter's Berlin office,
which quoted a 13 July order from the German Air Ministry
to manufacturers of jet and rocket -aircraft and power
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of the chemical fuels. Those problems were ©any and
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plant P and did not cover production by the electrolysis
method of the original 35$ hydrogen peroxide from which
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that on the
24th~~and offered thanks for the description a and
plans* Replying to that letter on 2 August, EWH
expressed their hopes that the plane given to
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~ extraction column
5« NH3
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NH3 recooler
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10* Rotation evaporator for salt evaporator
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16. Scheme for .preconcentration
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for concentration
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Scheme
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of the apparatus*
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It was early in 1944 that Japanese representa
tives in Germany apparently first became aware of German
development, of th© M£~26&. While it appears that the
Japanese were fully aware of the ME-262, n©verthel@Bs 5
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sketches
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One of Messerschmitt
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assistance.
It seems possible, however, that the Japanese,
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The, AR-3M .and #£-162 UNCWSSIFP
There is no evidence that the Japanese entered
into negotiations for the purchase of manufacturing
rights for the AR~204 or the HK-162 ? nor is there any
indication that plans or blueprints for the aircraft were
handed to Japanese representatives in Germany. The evidence
suggests that the Japanese did not contemplate production
of either of these aircraft.
The JU~387:
The JU-387, a high- speed bomber powered by six
turbo- .Jet units arranged in groups of three under each wing,
was still in the development stage at the <sn flof tha tmr
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Sxfep^ls^-Jioili s
Japanese interest in German turbo-jet units
developed as part and parcel of the interest in the ME~262.
Ac has been noted above, by 1 April 44 the Japanese had,
in accordance with an order by Hitler, received general
descriptions, survey sketches and illustrations of the
Mfc-163 B and ME«3B2 A-l. It must be assumed that inoluded
In the material on the MEU262 was information concerning
its turbo-jet units* In any event, th© 1 April letter
from Milch to Goring Included the Jumo-004 B-l among the
subject matter for cooperation in the field of Jet-propul
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cooling turbine-blades.
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Technical Air Arsenal of one coaxial tuFDo-jfftf unit
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assembled and ready for test and of many components
in the machining stage,
According to the March 1944 notebooK s one of
the main problems which Japanese development was encount
ering was that of the turbine-blades flying off the
turbine disc; in addition, problems of cooling also had
been experienced, Gooling and turbine-blades were two
factors whloh the Germans also had to overcome in their
successful development of turbo-jet units. The turbine-
blade problem was met by the development by Krupp of two
special high-duty steel alloys, Tinidur and Ohromadur,
Japanese representatives in Germany became aware of the
existence and uee of these alloys through their nego
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Japanese
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the basic data for the alloy, so that the
Japanese would be required to initiate with Krupp
Inquiries and negotiations for manufacturing rights
and processing techniques. To that the Junkers repre
eentative agreed.
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metal* Schomeru£ ? in addition, v?ae shown the manufacture
Titanium
Nil
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Instruction was provided as to the adjustment of the
proportion of titanium to carbon in order to prevent the
accumulation of carbide in tinidur* Other data given for
the two alloys included (i) tensile strength and elastic
limit at various temperatures , (ll) creep limit, (lii)
treatment temperatures for forging,
treatment, (lv) coefficient of expansion, and (v) modulus
of .elasticity*
An outline of the step-by-step production of
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