Japanese Aircraft Makers' Plates and Markings Report No 68 (MP&M 68)
Life of Japanese Combat Airplanes 20 March 1945
Page 13, Appendix A
Army Bombers
SALLY 2
Serial No. Date of Assembly Date of Crash Life in Months Place of Crash
4262 Mid Jan 42 Jan 45 36 Luzon, P.I.
4318 Late Jan 42 13 Jul 43 17.5 Assessed U/S, Lae
Strip*
4370 Early Apr 42 18
Sep 44 29.5 Hollandia, D.N.G.
4436 Mid Jun 43 27 Dec 43 5.5 Foul Pt., Burma
4492 Late Jul 43 22
Dec 43 5 Kungyang, Yunnan, China
6075 Mid Jul 42 1 Apr 43 8.5 Kathiurat, India
6081 Mid Jul 42 15 Jan 43 6 Solhdana. India
6082 Jul 42 15 Jan 43 6 Nalianala, Bengal, India
[* Assessed U/S
means a plane was judged to have been “unserviceable” on the date given in the
date-of-crash column. Photo
interpreters and other intelligence workers determined this status for an
individual aircraft by examining reconnaissance and strike photos in which the
plane appeared before the capture of the ground on which the plane rested. Later, when the place was captured,
intelligence field inspectors would determine the serial number and other
characteristics of the plane in question by comparison of positions with the
photo references, etc. This means
that the Allies did not actually have a plane so designated in hand at the date
given. For example plane No. 4318
was listed as U/S as of 13 July 1943 by intelligence personnel, but the plane,
itself, was not physically inspected on the ground until the capture of Lae air
strip, September 1943, whereupon the serial number was recovered.]
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