Cracking the Zero Mystery: How the U.S. Learned to Beat Japan's Vaunted World War II Fighter Plane (Stackpole Classics)

Jim Rearden

ISBN 10: 081172235X / ISBN 13: 9780811722353

Published by Stackpole Books (edition First Edition), 2018

About this Item

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cracking the Zero Mystery: How the U.S. Learned to Beat Japan's Vaunted World War II Fighter Plane (Stackpole Classics)
• Publisher: Stackpole Books (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081172235X
• ISBN 13: 9780811722353
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

For six months after Pearl Harbor the nimble Japanese Zero-sen plane dominated the Pacific air war. Then, on June 4, 1942 a Zero crashed on tiny Akutan Island in the Aleutians. It lay there for five weeks until spotted by an American plane. Hauled back to California, the Zero revealed its secrets in a series of tests and analyses. Fast, but lacking protection for the pilot as well as a self-sealing gas tank which all U.S. planes had, the Zero lost its predominance for the rest of the war. Rearden tells for the first time in detail the exciting events leading to this crucial intelligence breakthrough, as important as the breaking of the Japanese naval code. An appendix analyzes the vital statistics of the Zero versus U.S. planes.

About the Author

Jim Rearden is a prolific writer with six books and more than 500 newspaper and magazine articles to his credit. At age 17, he enlisted the destroyer escort Lovering in the Pacific during World War II. After the war he moved to Alaska to teach wildlife