Gakken Pacific War Series, Volume 42 featuring the Imperial Japanese Navy TYPE 1

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Offered by Over The Blue Horizon is a great Japanese pictorial -- from the well-regarded Gakken Pacific War Series, Volume 42 featuring the Imperial Japanese Navy TYPE 1 MITSUBISHI G4M BETTY bomber.
This 182-page, 7 x 10 inch softcover with dust jacket is another superb Gakken publication with great, large-format b/w photographs of the stalwart bomber; a multiple-page foldouts (front and back); numerous detail drawings and color profiles; and a number of exceptionally well-done computer generated illustrations featuring various details of the bomber as well as ‘action’ shots.  Over The Blue Horizon sells lots of books on Japanese aircraft, and we rate this publication to be the best periodical available on this aircraft.
The Betty was built in greater numbers than any other Japanese bomber in WWII and saw action throughout the entire war.  With its cigar-shaped fuselage, it had a unique appearance, and with fuel tanks that were not self-sealing, it had a tendency to burn when hit.  Operationally, the BETTY achieved much during its first year of combat, devastating Clark Field and participating in sinking the British battleships HMS PRINCE OF WALES and HMS REPULSE on December 10, and they ranged across the vast expanse of the Pacific theater, attacking targets from the Aleutians to Australia. Against limited fighter opposition, the lack of armor and self-sealing fuel tanks presented little hindrance, and the savings in airframe weight allowed the G4M to attack targets at unprecedented ranges. But as Allied fighter strength increased, the BETTY began to reveal its fatal vulnerabilities. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, died on April 18, 1943 when US P-38 Lightnings intercepted and destroyed the BETTY bomber in which he was flying.
Text in this book is in Japanese but the level of illustrative detail helps compensates for the difficulty of translation.  Just look at the accompanying scans and it is readily apparent how very useful this superb pictorial can be.
Condition of this long out-of-print and difficult-to-obtain volume is LIKE NEW -- it looks like it  just came off the Tokyo bookstore shelf.
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