Study Cracking The Zero Mystery: How The U.S. Learned To Beat Japan's Vaunted World War II Fighter Plane Portrayed By Jim Rearden Accessible As EPub

ineresting readable account of the Akutan Zero This is a slim information packed volume, Personal interviews by the author with participants involved in the Aleutian campaign inmake this book very interesting, Furthermore, it shows the importance that a single, seemingly insignificant event, the crash of a single plane, can have on the outcome of a battle or war.
Lt. Gen. Masatake Okumiya considered the recovery of this plane to be as significant to the defeat of Japan in WWII as the loss of the Battle of Midway.


I recommend this book for anyone interested in the Aleutian Campaign or in the defeat of Japan in World War II.

For six months after Pearl Harbor the nimble Japanese Zerosen plane dominated the Pacific air war, Then, on June,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 selfsealing 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. .