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Aichi 99 Kanbaku Val Units 1937-42 Osprey Combat Aircraft 63 Series Osamu Tagaya
Aichi 99 Kanbaku Val Units 1937-42 Osprey Combat Aircraft 63 Series Osamu Tagaya
Aichi 99 Kanbaku Val Units 1937-42 Osprey Combat Aircraft 63 Series Osamu Tagaya
Aichi 99 Kanbaku Val Units 1937-42 Osprey Combat Aircraft 63 Series Osamu Tagaya
Aichi 99 Kanbaku Val Units 1937-42 Osprey Combat Aircraft 63 Series Osamu Tagaya
Aichi 99 Kanbaku Val Units 1937-42 Osprey Combat Aircraft 63 Series Osamu Tagaya
Aichi 99 Kanbaku Val Units 1937-42 Osprey Combat Aircraft 63 Series Osamu Tagaya

Aichi 99 Kanbaku Val Units 1937-42 Osprey Combat Aircraft 63 Series Osamu Tagaya


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Aichi 99 Kanbaku Val Units 1937-42 Osprey Combat Aircraft 63 Series Osamu Tagaya
 
Aichi 99 Kanbaku  Val Units 1937-42 Osprey Combat Aircraft 63 Series by Osamu Tagaya
Soft Cover
96 pages
Copyright 2011
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE DIVE-BOMBING IN THE IJN 6
CHAPTER TWO CHINA - FIRST BLOOD 15
CHAPTER THREE PRELUDE TO PEARL HARBOR 18
CHAPTER FOUR `TO-RA, TO-RA, TO-RA' 25
CHAPTER FIVE SOUTHERN ADVANCE 46
CHAPTER SIX ZENITH IN THE INDIAN OCEAN 55
CHAPTER SEVEN CORAL SEA - THE CARRIERS CLASH 63
CHAPTER EIGHT MIDWAY AND THE ALEUTIANS 76 APPENDICES 92
COLOUR PLATES COMMENTARY 92 INDEX 95
ON THE BACK COVER
The mainstay of the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier dive-bomber force from 1941 onwards, the Aichi Type 99 Carrier Bomber (D3A), code-named 'Val' by Allied intelligence, sank more Allied warship tonnage than any other Axis aircraft during World War 2. With its fixed, spatted undercarriage and external dive brakes, the D3A possessed a superficial resemblance to that other great dive-bomber in the Axis arsenal, the Junkers Ju 87, and, as reflected in a wartime Allied ditty, 'Val' was indeed 'the Stuka's pal'. First entering
service in China in late 1939, the 99 Kanbaku figured prominently in all the great carrier battles of the UN during the first full year of the Pacific War, from Pearl Harbor through the Indian Ocean to Coral Sea and Midway. Such were the finely honed skills of its crews that, during the Indian Ocean operation of April 1942, the 99 Kanbaku scored the highest hit ratio in combat of any dive-bomber in history by sinking the Royal Navy's heavy cruisers HMS Cornwall and Dorsetshire and the light carrier HMS Hermes.

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