Ebola Gay is shot down

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This ignores obvious details, like the part where the IJA is somehow able to shoot down a B-29 (how? The B-29 is flying over 30,000 feet high and Japan has nothing that can fight that high)
Not only could the N1K-J George and J2M Jack reach the altitudes necessary to shoot down B-29 bombers, but they did do so, hence the need for P-51 and other escort fighters.
 
Not gonna happen

The US waited to launch the missions until the Japanese decided not to attack small B-29 groups because they were running out of fuel
Agreed, Japanese doctrine prevented any interception of small formations in the logical - but ultimately mistaken - belief that small formations couldn't do real damage.

Malfunctioning radar which inflates the number of aircraft detected, I told you earlier.
Except radar doesn't malfunction like that, without a much more powerful emitter the force can't appear bigger than it actually is.
 
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I fixed the title.

And the TL is still in 1945, so that's what the Yanks are going to be calling them.

Within the actual story yes, the Americans would refer to the Japanese as "Japs" or even "Nips." However, when you are referring to the Japanese that you are writing about the polite and respectful thing for you to do is to refer to those 1945 era Japanese as Japanese.

Likewise, it is polite and respectful to refer to refer to the Americans as Americans, not Yanks, both when you are writing about the 1945 era Americans and also in the actual story, as that is how both the Japanese and Americans would refer to the Americans. (The term "Yanks" may be used in the European Theater of WWII, but it most probably would not be used in the Pacific Theater.)
 
Within the story feel free to call em "Japs" or "Nips" (Refernce to Nippon) and maybe as "Gooks"?. Outside the story stick with Japanese, it's the polite term, Japs has a lot of negative connatations now.

In 1945 the Japanese would have simply refered to the Americans as "the Americans" (albeit with much distain) or maybe "Gaijin" which loosely means foreigner. If you want to use English words, Barbarian probably fits the bill.
 
Within the story feel free to call em "Japs" or "Nips" (Refernce to Nippon) and maybe as "Gooks"?. Outside the story stick with Japanese, it's the polite term, Japs has a lot of negative connatations now.

In 1945 the Japanese would have simply refered to the Americans as "the Americans" (albeit with much distain) or maybe "Gaijin" which loosely means foreigner. If you want to use English words, Barbarian probably fits the bill.

We appear to have found an excellent solution.
 
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