Author: LAEMLEIN
Title: Setting Suns Captured & Wrecked Japanese Aircraft in Wwii 2 Volume Set
Description: No Place: Armor Plate Press, 2007. Softcover. B & W ; 10 x 8 x 1"; 145, 127 pages; VERY SCARCE TITLE. Oblong shaped soft covers have green spines with white lettering. Each volume has light rubbing, scuffing. Pages are clean and tight. Exhaustively illustrated with b/w pictures . 'This book is a brilliant photo study of Japanese aircraft captured throughout the Pacific war. Divided into three sections: bombers, fighters and other aircraft (seaplanes, recon, transports and suicide aircraft). Like the title says, the book depicts captured or wrecked Japanese aircraft. Each page includes brief captions, and the photos are reproduced at superb quality, as either full page photographs, or half or quart page views. These large sized photos make the book an excellent reference. It covers equally Navy and Army aircraft. Geographically, photos span the entire Pacific war, including the Solomons, New Guinea, Philippines, Marianas, Okinawa and some selections from CBI. The photographs are excellent quality and resolution, scanned at National Archives and private collections. The majority of photos will be "new" to any reader, or alternate views of known wrecks. Author Laemiein has discovered rare additional photos of known wrecks that I have never seen before, testament to his stills researching at the National Archives. Of particular interest are four pages devoted to decoy aircraft. Eight pages are devoted to the MXY7 Ohka "Baka bomb" showing nearly every angle, plus the warhead cockpit and rockets. The book ends with several interesting pages devoted to aircraft machine guns, cannons, turrets and torpedoes. This book is highly recommend for any reader's Pacific book collection.. Fine .

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