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I agree with that. My surname is Japanese and has been an American surname since the 1850's meaning "forest village" before the US picked a fight with Japan in the late 19th century.

To get the aircraft tangent back on the topic of Korea. The P-80, while obsolescent in the early 1950s, was a workhorse during the Korean war in the exact opposite manner the P-51 was during WWII. The P-51 was originally intended for ground attack and it was discovered that an A model...

The necessary reliable gas turbines weren't available. The British actually delayed the development of the Gloster Meteor so the US could have Lockheed start testing the P-80 and Allison Engine start work on the J33 - which has twice the thrust of any German WWII gas turbine and, unlike the...

Like I said. Almost ready for deployment. The Me 262 and all the other German jets were flying disasters looking for an excuse which got rushed into service out of desperation while the US and UK basically said "we're going to do this right". The first US jet fighter - the P-59 - was a "this...

The P-80 Shooting Star was almost ready for deployment at the end of WWII, outclassed the Me 262*, and obsolescent when Korea started. * Seriously, a P-80 is 60mph-ish faster at any altitude and so easy to fly that the training version (the T-33) was used for roughly 50 years to teach people...

The B-29s which dropped the nukes were actually more expensive to design and build than the Manhattan Project. "We need a very long-ranged aircraft the axis can't intercept which is capable of carrying and dropping a 10 ton bomb" was not an easy design requirement. The "can't intercept" part...

Yeah, that ain't going to happen. US nukes aren't tactical. They're a "You just did that? Here's how the story ends." strategic last resort retaliation.