Osprey's exam of Japan's parachute devices of worldwide warfare II (1939-1945). For the 1st time in English, this ebook bargains a concise yet fact-packed account of the association, apparatus, and all operations of Japan's small yet elite wartime parachute forces. Correcting and amplifying past bills in accordance with wartime intelligence, it strains the Imperial Army's Raiding Regiments and the Imperial Navy's parachute-trained Yokosuka 1st & third distinctive Naval touchdown Forces from the 1st trials devices, via their winning attacks in early 1942, to the final determined battles and raids of 1944–45. The textual content is illustrated with infrequent pictures, and meticulously reconstructed colour art of the lads and their equipment.
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