Wings of the Rising Sun

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781472823731
  • Weight: 1389g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Nov 2018
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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A fascinating insight into how the Allies learned about the capabilities and limitations of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force and Japanese Army Air Force through flight testing and evaluation of enemy equipment.

In the Pacific War’s early years, Japanese air power was dominant. The only way for the Allies to defeat their enemy was to know it. This made the task of maintaining productive intelligence gathering efforts on Japan imperative.

Establishing Technical Air Intelligence Units in the Pacific Theatre and the Technical Air Intelligence Center in Washington DC, the Allies were able to begin to reveal the secrets of Japanese air power through extensive flight testing and evaluation of captured enemy aircraft and equipment. These provided an illuminating perspective on Japanese aircraft and aerial weapon design philosophy and manufacturing practice.

Fully illustrated throughout with a wealth of previously unpublished photographs, Mark Chambers explores Allied efforts to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Japanese air power during the war years, and how this intelligence helped them achieve victory in the Pacific.

Mark Chambers is an avid World War II aviation enthusiast and aviation history author. He has studied World War II military aviation extensively, with a keen focus on the air war in the Pacific. He is the author of Images of Aviation Flight Research at NASA Langley Research Center (2007), Images of Aviation Naval Air Station Patuxent River (2014), Building the Supermarine Spitfire Speed in the Skies (2016), Engineering Test Pilot The Exceptional Career of John P. “Jack” Reeder (2007) and From Research to Relevance Significant Achievements in Aeronautical Research at NASA Langley, 19172002 (2002). He works as a government contractor technical editor for the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.