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Operation Mercury, the German airborne assault on the island of Crete in 1941, was unprecedented in three respects, it is considered to be the first airborne operation in history, it was the first time the Allies made significant use of intelligence from the deciphered German Enigma codes, and it was the first time German troops encountered ...

At the begining of World War II, the Imperial Navy had created the finest naval aviation corps in the world. Japanese aircraft were at least the equals of anything then flying in the West, and in some cases (as with the legendary Zero fighter) were substantially better.

The Panzer IV was perhaps the most versatile, useful and numerous German tank in service with the Wehrmacht in the Second World War.

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These aviation profile books present some of the very best profiles we have seen and we are delighted to present them for the first time in the USA and UK.

These aviation profile books present some of the very best profiles we have seen and we are delighted to present them for the first time in the USA.

These aviation profile books present some of the very best profiles we have seen and we are delighted to present them for the first time in the USA.

Eduardo Cea goes into fascinating detail of each of the Special Units and Special Attack Units in turn. Complete with superb full colour artwork, battle orders, lists of pilots and other essential facts and figures, this comprehensive history of Japanese Military Aircraft will interest modellers, enthusiasts and historians alike.

Japan was isolated from foreign influence for thousand years, with hardly any influence from the outside world, during which it developed a particular culture very different from the West. It became involved in the "Culture of Western Welfare" at the end of the 19th century, and adapted rapidly to new technologies and the industrialised world.

In this beautifully illustrated book, Eduardo Cea goes into fascinating detail of each of the units of the Imperial Japanese Navy in turn, from the Dai 1 Kaigun Kokutai, which trained in torpedo attack techniques and participated in the attacks on targets situated in the province of Szechawan, through to the Dai 938 Kaigun Kokutai, deployed to ...

These aviation profile books present some of the very best profiles we have seen and we are delighted to present them for the first time in the USA.

Until the Royal Air Force captured a Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa virtually intact in the spring of 1942, Allied pilots knew little about the planes they were meeting in the air, and even less about the Japanese Army Air Force units opposing them. The situation has improved very little over the years.

After a historical introduction to the creation of the army aviation, it dedicates a chapter to the organization and major battles in the conquest and occupation of Manchuria and war with China, as well as the incident of the Nomohan against Soviet aircraft. In the second section, it gives a brief history of the units equipped with bombers and ground attack aircraft.