Type 3 Fighter Hien (244th Air Combat Group)

[Edit] Type 3 Fighter Hien (244th Air Combat Group) No.177 三式戦 飛燕(飛行第244戦隊)
Land-based Fighter Effects: +9 +3 +4 Combat Radius: 4 (Deployment Cost: 7) Scrap value: 1 2 6 (Unbuildable)
Card Fairy Equipment Combination
Refittable Class
Coastal Defense Ship	Destroyer
Light Cruiser	Torpedo Cruiser
Heavy Cruiser	Training Cruiser
Aviation Cruiser	Fast Battleship
Battleship	Aviation Battleship
Light Carrier	Standard Aircraft Carrier
Armored Carrier	Seaplane Tender
Submarine	Aircraft Carrying Submarine
Submarine Tender	Fleet Oiler
Repair Ship	Amphibious Assault Ship

Introduction

三式戦「飛燕」を駆り、東京調布に展開して首都防空に奮戦した陸軍戦闘機隊、飛行第244戦隊です。戦いの最終局面では、「飛燕」を空冷化した信頼性の高い「五式戦」に機種転換し、敵新型機に対抗していきます。

Piloted by the 244th Air Squadron, the Type 3 Fighter Hien is the battle-hardened Army's fighter aircraft, developed in Chofu, Tokyo for capital defense. During the final stages of the war, the Hien was converted to the highly-reliable, air-cooled Type 5 Fighter to counter new models of enemy fighters.

Notes

Unbuildable

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TL Note: "Hikou dai 244 sentai" (飛行第244戦隊) can be translated to 244th Air or Flying Squadron, although in practice the word "Hikou" (飛行) for air or flying is often dropped.

Trivia

The 244th Air Squadron consisted of highly skilled mainland defenders from the IJAAF, whose main objective was to defend the skies of the capital of Japan. Because of this, priority was given to supply them with the most state-of-the-art equipment, maintenance crew, advanced training and the most elite pilots. Near the end of the war, they were task to defend against the high speed, high altitude, heavy firepower B-29 Superfortress and their near constant bombardments. It was considered extremely difficult, dangerous and borderline suicidal to engage a B-29 due to very few planes being able to reach them. They were held with high regard by the Emperor himself despite knowing any sortie could be their final.

• Nagao Shirai managed to shoot down 11 B-29s, Teruhiko Kobayashi 10 and Chuichi Ichikawa 9 with a total of 83 confirmed kills within the squadron, 73 were B-29s and more than 100 damaged.
• The base of the 244th is now the Chofu Airport.

See also

• 飛行第244戦隊 - Wikipedia (Japanese link)