IJN KAWANISHI H8K EMILY Japanese Navy Flying Boat Maru Mechanic Vol 24 Book
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Offered by Over The Blue Horizon and recently obtained in Tokyo is a very nice vintage Maru Mechanic (#24, September 1980) on the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Kawanishi H8K EMILY Flying Boat.Used for maritime patrol duties, the H8K entered production in late 1941 and first saw operational use on the night of March 4, 1942 staging a second raid on Pearl Harbor. Since the target lay out of normal range for the flying boats, this audacious plan involved a refueling by submarine en route at French Frigate Shoals - an overall mission distance of almost 5,000 miles. Incredibly, two EMILYs actually made it to Hawaii and bombed the island of Oahu! The improved H8K2 variant soon appeared, and its extremely heavy defensive armament earned it the nickname "Flying Porcupine" among Allied aircrews. This was to be the definitive variant, with 112 produced, and they were used on a wide range of patrol, reconnaissance, bombing, and transport missions throughout the Pacific war. Nearly 40 examples of a dedicated transport version, the H8K2-L, were also built, capable of carrying 62 troops. Overall, a total of 167 EMILYs were produced, and only four survived until the end of the war. One of these, an H8K2, was captured by U.S. forces at the end of the war and was evaluated in the United States before being eventually returned to Japan in 1979. It
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