Nakajima Aircraft Musashino Factory

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中島飛行機武蔵野工場

Workers assembling aircraft at Nakajima Aircraft Company factory, 1944
Assembly line workers building military aircraft at the Nakajima Aircraft Company, September 1944. — Chunichi Shimbun, Public Domain

The largest aircraft engine factory in Japan, a primary target of American strategic bombing.

Prefecture
Tokyo
City
Musashino
Region
Kanto
Significance
National
Today
Destroyed
Access
Open To The Public
Location accuracy
Approximate
Period
1938–1945

Images

Nakajima Aircraft Company head office in the Taisho era
The Nakajima Aircraft Company headquarters during the Taisho era. Founded in 1917, it became Japan's largest aircraft manufacturer. — Public Domain
Memorial monument at the former Nakajima Aircraft Company Tokyo Plant site
A memorial monument at the former site of the Nakajima Aircraft Company's Tokyo Plant in Suginami. — Kentin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

History

The Nakajima Aircraft Company's Musashino factory in western Tokyo — merged in November 1943 with the adjoining Tama plant to form the Musashi Plant — was Japan's largest producer of aircraft engines, manufacturing the Sakae engine that powered the famous Zero fighter. Recognized by US intelligence as the single most important aircraft production target in Japan, it was attacked repeatedly by B-29 bombers starting in November 1944. These raids were among the first precision bombing missions against the Japanese home islands.

Categories

Aircraft Factory (primary)Air Raid SiteAir Base

Related events

First B-29 Raids on Japan from the Marianasマリアナ基地からのB-29本土初空襲
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Related institutions

Nakajima Aircraft Company中島飛行機株式会社
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Related themes

Aviation航空
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Strategic Bombing戦略爆撃
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Sources

  1. 中島飛行機 - WikipediaWebsite
  2. 武蔵野中央公園 - WikipediaWebsite
  3. 武蔵野市 ― 中島飛行機武蔵製作所と武蔵野の空襲（市資料）Government
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