On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 23:06:10 +0900, Gernot Hassenpflug
wrote:

Are these different from the books written by the authors you mention
below? If you give me one name (of a book) I can find the others,

Right; Izawa & Hata had nothing to do with the semi-official
histories. These are the two I worked with (sorry about the HTML):

pJapan. Defense Agency. iNanpo shinko rikugun koku sakusen/i
(Army Air

Operations in Southeast Asia). Tokyo: Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1970.
The JDA
campaign histories are the best thing available on the Pacific War
from the
Japanese point of view, though uneven in quality. This one is
excellent.

p---. ---. iChugoku homen rikugun koku sakusen/i (Army Air
Operations in China). Tokyo: Asagumo Shimbunsha, 1974. And
this one is so-so.

As I say, the name of the author is variously translated. I think it's
something like Veteran's Bureau of the Self-Defense Agency.


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