Japanese Paratroop Forces of World War II

For the first time in English, a concise but fact-packed account of the organization, equipment, and all operations of Japan''s small but elite wartime parachute forces.

Correcting and amplifying previous accounts based on wartime intelligence, it traces the Imperial Army''s Raiding Regiments and the Imperial Navy''s parachute-trained Yokosuka 1st & 3rd Special Naval Landing Forces from the first t...