AUSTIN, Texas — In a historic moment marking the end of World War II, Japanese officials signed the formal instrument of surrender aboard the USS Missouri on Sept. 2, 1945. It marked the end of a ...
Faster and with a longer range than aircraft at the time, Mitsubishi’s G4M was a true beacon of Japanese power during World War II. The Betty Bomber had become instantly recognizable as it was ...
Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Allied technical air intelligence units -- Chapter 2: Evaluating fighters -- Chapter 3: Evaluating bombers and reconnaissance aircraft -- Chapter 4: Evaluating seaplanes ...
The Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" was Japan’s most ambitious World War II bomber—and its crews' deadliest trap. Known to American pilots as the "Flying Lighter" for its terrifying tendency to burst into ...
A former schoolteacher armed with a radio and a force of Solomon Islander scouts became one of World War II's most legendary ...
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Because of its ability to attack targets that were hundreds of miles away from its airbases in England, the bombers of World War II were vital assets to the Allied war effort. Tasked with the ...
Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...