Japanese Aircraft Equipment: 1940-1945 Robert C. Mikesh

Japanese Aircraft Equipment: 1940-1945
Robert C. Mikesh
Hardcover: 198 pages
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd (31 Aug 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764320971
ISBN-13: 9780764320972

As a companion book to the previously published Japanese Aircraft Interiors, by the same author, this book defines more closely the equipment that outfitted these aircraft. There are chapters on such aircraft installed equipment as instruments, radios, cameras, machine guns and cannons, gunsights and bombsights used by the Japanese Army and Navy air forces. The opening chapter describes the history as to how much of this equipment was captured and now is in the hands of collectors and museums. The closing chapter has additional information on colors and coatings used in these interiors. This information will aid collectors to more definitively identify equipment that may not otherwise be clearly marked. Experts in these respective fields have been major contributors.