JAPAN AT WAR, 1931-1945

Japan's long war:

• Nomonhan (Japan v. Russia, 1939)
• Russian aircraft losses at Nomonhan
• Elusive target: Bombing Japan from China (Richard Dunn)
• Did U.S. leaders know that war was coming?
• A guest of the Japanese in the Dutch Indies (Arie Biemond)
• "New Guinea was my introduction to war" (anonymous)
• Ketsu-go (waiting for the Americans, summer 1945)
• Olympic vs. Ketsu-go (the invasion that didn't happen)
• Japan's Longest Day: how Japan surrendered
• The Last Raid: how the war ended, August 14-15
• The U.S. Navy arrives in Tokyo Bay, August 1945
• Did Japanese soldiers fight for the Vietminh?

The Hiroshima files:

• Why Truman dropped the bomb (Richard Frank)
• Little Boy vs Operation Olympic (an internet debate)
• How many died at Hiroshima?--counting the uncountable
• What was the yield of the Hiroshima bomb?
• Was there a third bomb? What was its target?
• Been down that lonely road: NASM confronts Enola Gay
• Hiroshima and the end of the war--a reading list

The Japanese Army Air Force files:

• Notes on the Japanese Army Air Force
• The decision to move south (Japan v. the West, 1941)
• Mr. Suzuki recalls the Flying Tigers (December 1941)
• Lucky Sevens? life and death of the 77th Sentai (Richard Dunn)
• Rising sun over Burma: JAAF vs. AVG
• JAAF deployments against Rangoon, December-March (maps)
• Japanese army aircraft met by the AVG
• Joe Baugher's Hayabusa files
• Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa ("Oscar") armament (Richard Dunn)
• About those Nakajima Ki-43 machineguns
• Regimental song of the 64th Sentai (video)
• Japanese army aces and their victory claims
• JAAF fighter pilots lost in China-Burma area, 1941-42
• Ki-45 Toryu (Dragon Slayer, aka Nick)

Why's a Zero?

• Why's a Zero? and a primer on the Japanese calendar
• Japanese warplane names and designations (Osamu Tagaya)
• Allied code-names in perspective (Richard Dunn)
• Sussing out the 'Chengdu Zero'
• Zeros over China, 1941-1942 (Ben Schapiro)
• Unraveling the Zero's performance data (Richard Dunn)
• 'Never dog fight the Zero' (the San Diego evaluations)
• A conversation with Saburo Sakai and a scrap of his scarf
• 'Winged Samurai': rethinking the Sakai myths
• An interview with another Zero pilot

Kamikaze, cannibals, & other mysteries:

• Bushido: the Japanese Field Service Code, 1941
• 'Be as one already dead' (Ruth Benedict)
• The soldier who cut up living prisoners (London Times)
• The butchered bodies of New Guinea (graphic photos)
• The Rape of Nanking: Japan in denial
• Meet Colonel Tsuji, genius and cannibal
• Outram Road Prison, Singapore
• Done to death: the prisoners of Rabaul
• The man who didn't shoot down Pappy Boyington
• Why the kamikaze volunteered (Yasuho Izawa)
• A Japanese army pilot trains to die
• 'Crashing bodily into a target is not easy' (the how-to manual)
• 'I will be waiting for you at Yasukuni Shrine'
• 'Annihilate them all' (the order to murder PWs)

• The A6M Zero Store (books & collectibles)
• Japan at War--book reviews on this site
• The webmaster's picks: 10 books worth reading
• Books about Japanese aircraft and aces

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