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Title: B-29 Superfortress vs Ki-44 "Tojo"
Condition: New
EAN: 9781472818867
ISBN: 9781472818867
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 19/10/2017
Item Height: 248mm
Item Length: 184mm
Item Width: 8mm
Item Weight: 265g
Author: Donald Nijboer
Illustrator: Jim Laurier, Gareth Hector
Contributor: Jim Laurier (Illustrated by), Gareth Hector (Illustrated by)
Language: English
Subtitle: Pacific Theater 1944–45
ISBN-10: 1472818865
Description: By the time the Americans began their aerial bombardment of Japan in 1944, both the JAAF and IJNAF were spent forces. What the Japanese did have though was the Ki-44 "Tojo". Armed with two 40 mm cannon, it was the most heavily armed and feared single-seat fighter to see action against the new American bomber, the B-29 Superfortress. For the bomber crews, they had what they believed was their ‘ace in hole’: a fully armed B-29 carried four remotely operated gun turrets and a tail gunner's position, making it the world's most advanced self-defending bomber.In every respect the Ki-44 pilots were fighting a desperate battle. Many who made their mark did so using suicidal ramming attacks or "taiatari". Illustrated with full colour artwork, this volume examines why the Ki-44 was unable to break up bomber formations conventionally during the Pacific War, and how its ramming tactics, while terrifying, graphically revealed Japan's inability to stop the B-29.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Law & Politics
Book Series: Duel
Topic: History, Military History
Release Year: 2017

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