Thanks Aaron, proton45 and Wayne
Stuka would be a long term project...
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...... Big tension stirred up among us.
Listening to the English sentences which were streaming out from the speaker, the translation soldier translated the contents for us -
"I have captured their communication. It says 'Sky is clear above the target. Visual attack is possible. We are heading to east for Harima-nada (*a sea between Hiroshima and Osaka)' but their communication partner is unknown."
Our team was vaguely perceiving the group for Bungo Channel would not be the main because if it had been a guide, there should have always been another formaion behind the guide but there was no sign at all. However, our Central Special Intelligence Division persisted to the phenomenon that B-29s appeared on Bungo Channel and had sent warning to the headquarters of 6th Air Force which was covering Kyusyu/Okinawa area then.
We had no idea where the other group who could have received the message "Visual attack is possible" was standing by but it had soon been turned out that they invaded flying above our less defended area and was circling waiting for the weather information from the leading group.
According to my flight experience with my former partner Warrant officer Takenaka (ex-Sergeant-major Takenaka - a Ki-45 pilot) that we flew over that area tailing B-29s who were invading to bomb Osaka-Kobe, the route from the middle point between Shingu City of Wakayama Prefecture and Owashi City of Mie Prefecture to Kawachi-nagano City of Osaka Prefecture by way of Kumano-kodo, Mt.Kohya, River Kinokawa and Hashimoto City of Wakayama Prefecture was presumed.
Also, according to 2nd Lt. Hiraoka's guess, the positon the other group was standing by would be within a radius of 200 to 300km (125 to 187miles) from the target point. Then, it might be above Lake Biwa(*north of Kyoto) but we had no evidence about our presumption.
/End of Article No.110 but this story continues.