Sea Eagles of the South Seas

Sea Eagles of the South Seas

Product Details
Photographs by Navy Press Team Member Abe Tetsuo
Commentary by Sato Nobuhiko and Yoshino Yasutaka
Format: AB size, paperback
Number of pages: 128
Release date: November 4, 2014
ISBN: 978-4-499-23144-2
Publisher: Dai Nippon Kaiga Senshi (Great Japan)

The heroic figure of the Navy Air Corps in the Southwest, which was missing from the war history, emerges here
This book presents a collection of precious photographs of the Navy Air Corps taken by Abe Tetsuo, who served in the area known as the Southwestern Front as a press team member for the Mainichi Shimbun, for ten months from January 1944, when the Allied forces began their full-scale counterattack, to November of the same year. The images that emerged from the existing negatives are extremely valuable.

■Main contents of this book
Painting and markings of the Southwestern Navy Air Force
Chapter 1: Waterfowl at Ha Long Base
[Naval Air Group 934]
Chapter 2: Zero Fighters in the Southwestern Area
[Naval Air Group 381] Chapter 3:  732nd Air and
Land Attack Squadron [Naval Air Group 732] Struggling with Operation Z1 and Operation KonChapter 4: Okinawa Air Operations at Kushira Base Table of Contents Painting and markings of the Southwestern Navy Air Force Appendix: Carrier attack squadrons in Okinawa air operations [Illustrations/Nishikawa Yukinobu]...2 

◆Chapter 1: Waterfowl at Ha Long Base [Naval Air Group 934]...019 

◆Chapter 2: Zero Fighters in the Southwestern Area [Naval Air Group 381]...039 

◆Chapter 3: 732nd Air and Land Attack Squadron [Naval Air Group 732] Struggling with Operation Z1 and Operation Kon ...069 

◆Chapter 4: Okinawa Air Operations at Kushira Base...107Naval  Press Team Member Abe Tetsuo's career and postwar period...123

By Dainippon Kaiga