The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944

by Ian W. Toll

Nakajima completed another 1,967 in 1943. Still not enough. But Toll is overlooking that (confusingly enough) Nakajima built more A6Ms than Mitsubishi.

If course the N1K1-J and N1K2-J were land-based fighters, but they deserve mention too.

A superficial and somewhat confused reading of the A6M’s development history. The model 11 predated the war in the Pacific.

That is more than a little confused! The original Aichi Atsuta in-line engine was licensed from Daimler-Benz.

Illogical, of course. As these would be anti-personnel weapons.

That same day, the Japanese public learned of the previous week’s mass civilian suicides on Saipan. The Asahi Shinbun printed a translated Time magazine story on the deaths.