The Tetsuzo Iwamoto’s 13th story, the title of which is “The Episodes about Takedaya Inn and the Great Air Raid over Kanto Region”, will be released in the September issue of the magazine, Maru.
On February 16, 1945, a total of around 1,000 planes took off from 14 US aircraft carriers, and air-raided bases and aircraft manufacturing factories around Tokyo. The Japanese Air Force fought them with full force. Flying a Zero Fighter, Ensign T. Iwamoto took off from the Mobara Base near Tokyo, involved in air combats.
Takadaya Inn was located near the Mobara Base where T. Iwamoto often visited to enjoy himself, drinking with his colleagues and the owner of this inn.
T. Iwamoto insisted he shot down over 200 enemy planes during and before the World War Ⅱ.
