It’s kinda interesting how fast tech was advancing in the day. It wasn’t long after the war that we could have bombed Japan with bombers launched from the US mainland using b-36’s, with massive bomb loads. And the Japanese fighters couldn’t have touched them.
B-36 was an amazing aircraft.
“And the Japanese fighters couldn’t have touched them.”
At the tail end of the war, the Japanese had a very sophisticated and technologically advanced jet fighter program underway. It was at least on a par with the ME 262 and would have given Japan air superiority. But like Germany, too little and too late.