The Japanese took a serious pounding towards the end and most material was utterly destroyed. The remaining was used as last effort weapons. Everything that could fly, was used untill it fell out of the sky.

1. As you say: the pacific might still turn up a few perls.

2. So the Americans did get a ki46-2. Is anything known about its end?

as you said japan took a real pounding but if you look at the post war pics taken during the early days of occupation alot of really intresting stuff survived only to be burnt:mad:.

we can only hope that the pacific leaders see reason and release these aircraft to be restored and put under cover(i know that they need to feed there people is more important)as the battle field tourism wont survive much longer as when some one hurts them selves on these decaying planes they will probably be scrapped:mad:.
there ais a very historic j1n1 in the solomans that needs saving it’s one of the two field modified night figher’s

as for the ki 46-2 as far as i know it was scrapped possibly at clark field along with the raiden and ki44,n1k1and other’s one of the taic collection a ki43 survived only to be ordered scrapped in the 60’s.

this beauty was tested why didnt they save it:mad: