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A Flying Tigers bibliography - III

British despatches

British military commanders traditionally wrote a post-campaign "despatch" for the Supplement to the London Gazette. They are often self-serving but contain lots of good stuff about British military dispostions.

Brooke-Popham, Robert. "Operations in the Far East." SLG 20 Jan 1948.

Stevenson, Donald. "Air Operations in Burma." SLG 11 Mar 1948.

Wavell, Archibald (also Harold Alexander and T. J. Hutton). "Operations in Burma." SLG 5 Mar 1948.

Japanese Monograph Series

These mimeographed documents were published by the U.S. Army of occupation, which hired demobilized Japanese officers to write campaign histories and the like. They were published in Tokyo in the late 1940s and early 1950s. They vary greatly in quality and amount of detail, but all are worth reading. The Library of Congress has a full set on microfilm.

Hisazuma, Tadeo. "Air Operations in the China Incident." No. 166.

Ishikawa, Shin, et al. "Southwest Area Air Operations Record." No. 55.

Nonaka. "Southwest Area Air Operations Record." No. 56.

Shiba, Takejiro. "Air Operations in the China Area." No. 76. (Reprinted by Historica)

"Southern Area Air Operations." No. 31.

Sugita, et al. "Malay Operations Record." No. 54.

Tanaka, Masa. "Burma Air Operations Record." No. 64. (Reprinted by Historica)

Terakura, Shore, et al. "Burma Operations Record." No. 57.

Tomioka, Sadatoshi. "Political Strategy Prior to Outbreak of War." No. 144, 146, 147, 150, 152. (Available online as part of the Pearl Harbor Papers.)

Yamaguchi, Shiro. "Malaya Invasion Naval Operations." No. 107.

Archives

AFHRC: Air Force Historical Research Center at Maxwell Field. CLC Papers: Chennault Papers at Stanford and Library of Congress microfilm, in numbered folders. NASM: the Pistole Colelction at National Air & Space Museum.

American Volunteer Group. "Diary of 3rd Pursuit Squadron," 1941-1942 [maintained by Daniel Hoyle]. AFHRC 863.059 and NASM.
---. "Group War Diary," 1941-1942 [maintained by Olga Greenlaw and Doreen Davis]. AFHRC 863.305 and CLC Papers 29-30.
---. Victories attributed to AVG pilots, 1942. CLC Papers 13.

Britain. Military Intelligence. "Japanese Air Losses, Burma Operation." Imperial War Museum AL 5190.
---. ---. Summary of Japanese documents, Burma invasion. Imperial War Museum AL 5191.
---. Royal Air Force. Pilot's Notes: Tomahawk I. Publication 2013A, n.d. The aircraft described is actually the Tomahawk IIB, 100 of which were diverted to China and flown by the AVG.
---. ---. Log of 17 Sq, Public Record Office AIR 27/235; 67 Sq, AIR 602-603; 113 Sq, Public Record Office AIR 878; 135 Sq, AIR 949. Incomplete combat diaries of three fighter squadrons and a bomber squadron that served in Burma.

McHugh, James. "The History and Status of the First American Volunteer Group," 1941. Cornell Univ. Library 2770.

Pickler, Gordon. "U.S. Aid to Chinese Nationalist Air Force." Ph.D dissertation, 1971. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms.

Japanese language sources

Baba, Kazuo, et al. Nihon gunyoki no zembo (Japanese Warplanes in the Pacific). Tokyo: Kantosha, 1956. Three-views; one-page descriptions.

Hasegawa, Naoyoshi. Rikuwashi nanpo sakusen (Land Eagles in the South). Tokyo: Nihon Gunyo Tosho Kabushi Kigaisha, 1943.

Hayashi, Iwao. In Shichi jusan butai kaisoki (73rd Division Remembered). Tokyo: Reimeisha, 1980.

Hinoki, Yohei. Tsubasa no kessen (Desperate Winged Combat). Tokyo: Kojunsha, 1984. Sgt. Hinoki fought the AVG in the 64th Sentai (he was wounded by R. T. Smith).

---. Hayabusa sentotai cho Kato (Commander Kato's Falcon Corps). Tokyo: Kojunsha, 1987.

Hiroshi Umemoto. Burma Air War, vol 1, Tokyo: Dai Nippon Kaiga, 2003. Available at Amazon.co.jp. Incorporated into the Rising Sun Over Burma files on this website.

Horiba, Kazuo. Shina jihen senso shido shi (Strategy in the China Incident). Tokyo: Jiji Tsushinsha, 1962.

Ikari, Yoshio. Shinshitei (New Reconnaissance). Tokyo: Sankei Shuppan, 1981.

Izawa, Yasuho. Nihon rikugun jubakutai (JAAF Bomber Units). Tokyo: Gendaishi Shuppankai, 1982.

---. & Ikuhiko Hata. Nihon rikugun sentokitai (JAAF Fighter Units). Tokyo: Kantosha, 1977. Some of this material appears to have been used in Henry Sakaida, Fighter Aces of the JAAF, Osprey, 1996.

Japan. Defense Agency. Nanpo shinko rikugun koku sakusen (Army Air Operations in Southeast Asia). Tokyo: Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1970. The JDA campaign histories are the best thing available on the Pacific War from the Japanese point of view, though uneven in quality. This one is excellent.

---. ---. Chugoku homen rikugun koku sakusen (Army Air Operations in China). Tokyo: Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1974. And this one is so-so.

Kasuya, Toshio. Yamamoto jubakugetai no eiko (Glorious Yamamoto Bomber Corps). Tokyo: Futami Shobo, 1970.

Kori, Katsu, et al. Nihon no koku gojunen (Fifty Years of Japanese Aviation). Tokyo: Kantosha, 1960. There is an English-language supplement, translating the text and captions; very helpful.

Kubo, Yoshiaki. Kyunana jubakutai kusanki (The 97 Heavy-Bomber Story). Tokyo: Kojinsha, 1984.

Kuroe, Yasuhiko. Aa Hayabusa sentotai (Ah, the Falcon Corps). Tokyo: Kojinsha, 1969. Lt. Kuroe served first with a Ki-44 Shoki unit in Burma, then transferred to the 64th Sentai.

Ogawa, Toshihiko. Nihon hikoki daizukan (Encyclopedia of Japanese Aircraft). Tokyo: Kodansha, 1980.

Sekigawa, Eiichiro. Pictorial History of Japanese Military Aviation. London: Allan, 1974.

Tagata, Takeo. Hien tai Guramen (Swallow vs. Grumman). Tokyo: Konnichi no Wadaisha, 1973.

Toho Motion Picture Co. Aa Hayabusa sentotai cho Kato (Ah, Commander Kato's Falcon Corps). Film, n.d. A grand, hammy fiction version of the 64th Sentai campaign up to Kato's death in 1942.

---. Biruma (Burma). Film, n.d. Good newsreel.

---. Aa Hayabusa. Film, n.d. Good documentary about the Ki-43. Sgt. Hinoki appears.

Watanabe, Yoji. Toryu. Tokyo: Sankei Shuppan, 1983. See the link for notes from this book.

Yasuda, Yoshito. "Muteki Hayabusa sentai" (Almighty Falcon Group). In Eiko Hayabusa sentai. Tokyo: Konnichi no Wadaisha, 1978. Sgt. Yasuda was another pilot in the 64th Sentai who fought the AVG (he was claimed as a kill by Duke Hedman and Chuck Older but lived to tell his side of the story).

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