B-29 Superfortress vs Ki-44 "Tojo" - Pacific Theater 1944-45

By the time the Americans began their aerial bombardment of Japan in 1944, both the JAAF and IJNAF were spent forces. What the Japanese did have though was the Ki-44 "Tojo". Armed with two 40 mm cannon, it was the most heavily armed and feared single-seat fighter to see action against the new American bomber, the B-29 Superfortress. For the bomber crews, they had what they believed was their ''ace in hole'': a fully armed B-29 carried four remotely operated gun turrets and a tail gunner''s position, making it the world''s most advanced self-defending bomber.In every respect the Ki-44 pilots were fighting a desperate battle. Many who made their mark did so using suicidal ramming attacks or "taiatari". Illustrated with full colour artwork, this volume examines why the Ki-44 was unable to break up bomber formations conventionally during the Pacific War, and how its ramming tactics, while terrifying, graphically revealed Japan''s inability to stop the B-29.>

Product details

• Authors: Donald Nijboer
• Assisted by: Gareth Hector (Illustration), Gareth (Illustrator) Hector (Illustration), Hector Gareth (Illustration), Jim Laurier (Illustration), Jim (Illustrator) Laurier (Illustration), Laurier Jim (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781472818867
• ISBN: 978-1-4728-1886-7
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 244 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Duel; Duel
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Japan, military history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / Aviation, HISTORY / Oceania, Military vehicles, Warfare & defence, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Air forces and warfare, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Australasian and Pacific history, Military aircraft