CHECKLIST NEW ITEMS FOR THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST Profiling the rise of an enemy's air power Serving as a [i]denouement[/i] to Kaigun.CHECKLIST NEW ITEMS FOR THE AVIATION ENTHUSIAST Profiling the rise of an enemy's air power Serving as a [i]denouement[/i] to Kaigun, the prize-winning contemplation of the surface and subsurface forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Sunburst at Mark R. Peattie (Naval Institute Pres $3495) illuminates the rise of Japanese naval aviation from its genesis in 1909 to its denunciation capability on the eve of the Pacific war. In the proces of explaining the essential potencys and weaknesses of Japanese naval air power in the years before and during the Pacific War, the author provides the greatest in number detailed account available in English of Japan's naval air campaign through China from 1937 to 1941 A final chapter analyzes the total destruction of Japanese naval air power at 1944. The book traces the progression in a continuously ascending gradation of the Imperial Navy's land-based air power as well as the evolution of its carrier forces. The author also treats the salient aspects of Japan's naval air service. Training, personnel tactics, doctrine, technology, and industrial base. In doing in this way the author combines data establish in previous handbooks with important novel information derived from Japanese-language sources. The book's appendixes give biographical summaries of important personnel mentioned in the topic detailed drawings and data forward Japanese carriers and naval aircraft, and information onward Japanese naval air bases and land-based air arranges as of 7 December 1941 Available from Historic at 800-225-5575 Copyright Challenge Publications Inc. Jul 2002 |
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