Japanese Army Air Force Fighters, Part 1

World War 2 Fact Files

by William Green, Gordon Swanborough

Japanese Army Air Force Fighters, Part 1 From the back cover--- In the years immediately prior to Pearl Harbor, the Japanese aircraft industry was popularly regarded in the West as copyist and incapable of original designs; moreover, Japanese combat aircraft were widely believed to be outdated by international standards and derivative of obsolescent American and European designs. However......

58 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Adapted from Wikipedia:
William Green (1927 – 2 January 2010) was an aviation and military author, following service with Britain's Royal Air Force, where he wrote for the Air Training Corps Gazette (later to be become the Air Pictorial).
Green was Technical Director to the RAF Flying Review, and then Editorial Director when it became Flying Review International. In 1971 he and Gordon Swanborough jointly created the monthly Air International, of which he remained Managing Editor until late 1990.
Green edited numerous editions of Observers book of Aircraft and spent most of his adult life doing research and writing on aircraft and aviation. His work Warplanes of the Third Reich is seen as a classic aviation publication. Along with Gordon Swanborough, he also wrote several books for Salamander Books including The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Worlds Commercial Aircraft, Illustrated Anatomy of the World's Fighters and Flying Colours.

Reviews

[Daniel Rex · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collaboration between William Green, the famous WW2 aviation writer, and co-author/illustrator Gordon Swanborough was published in 1976 as part of a detailed series of booklets where both famous and obscure aircraft are thoroughly examined and illustrated. The profile unit marking art, rare photographs and detailed cutaway drawings are fascinating as well. The volume covers the Kawasaki Ki 45 Toyru, the Ki 61 and 100, with some twin engined rarer fighters also mentioned.