Friday 16 March 2018

New Book ~ Japanese Anti-Submarine Aircraft of the Pacific War


I have just received especially welcome confirmation that this eagerly awaited and important book by Ryusuke Ishiguro and Tadeusz Januszewski. will now be published by MMP Books this Summer.

The Japanese Anti-Submarine aircraft of World War II are not well documented and this book is the first on the subject in the English language. Full details are provided for a wide selection of historic aircraft, both Navy and Army, and their fascinating colour schemes are illustrated in specially commissioned profiles. The featured aircraft are:

• Aichi E13A (Jake)
• Aichi H9A
• Kawanishi E7K (Alf)
• Kawanishi H6K (Mavis/Tillie)
• Kawanishi H8K (Emilly)
• Mitsubishi G3M (Nell)
• Mitsubishi G4M (Betty)
• Nakajima B5N (Kate)
• Nakajima B6N Tenzan (Jill)
• Kyushu Q1W Tokai (Lorna)
• Q1W1-K Tokai Ren
• Mitsubishi Q2M Taiyo
• Kyushu K11W Shiragiku
• Kyushu Q3W Nankai
• Kayaba Ka-Go
• Kokusai Ki-76 (Stella)
• Kobeseiko Te-Go
• Mitsubishi Ki-51 (Sonia)
• Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu (Helen)
• Tachikawa Ki-36 (Ida)
• Tachikawa Ki-54 (Hickory)


In A4 Softcover format (ISBN 978-83-65281-39-5). 

Excellent news!

Image credit: © 2018 MMP Books via Ryusuke Ishiguro

3 comments:

David S. said...

Indeed an eagerly awaited and important book. Definitely looking forward to add this to my collection.
I will be most interested in learning about Japanese effort on trying to stop the very effective US Navy submarine campaign.
While including a multitude of interesting aircraft I'm especially looking forward to the rightfully cover decorating Q1W Tokai and the Kayaba autogiro.
The only drawback to me right now is the softcover format, which isn't diminishing my enthusiasm.



WD said...

Really looking forward to this, and long overdue.

Warren

Dan Salamone said...

Incredibly excited about this release. Summer can't get here fast enough!

Dan