Japanese Blunder Weapons - The TAIU Bloopers of the Pacific War

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Could you imagine a time when a newspaper couldn't be trusted? Or a comic book wasn't an appropriate source of military intelligence? Amazing, eh?

When war broke out, the Allies were at a loss to understand the Japanese Imperial Naval and Army Air Services' naming systems. To make it easier on a generation of young men who had likely never before heard a word of the Yamato Race's language, code names were given to each aircraft as it was identified. While the man who developed the idea, United States Army Air Force Captain Frank T. McCoy, contributed his taxonomical genius to Japanese and later to Soviet aircraft, he could only work with what he was given. So, here are the glorious warbirds that weren't: from the Gus to the Harry, from the Ben to the Ione. There are also many which received two or three names or were simply mistaken identity. Take an interesting peek at the near misses, second guesses, and overeager eyes of Allied intel, with Japanese Blunder Weapons: the Tactical Air Intelligence Unit Bloopers of the Pacific War.

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