IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Nakajima Kikka was the only World ...
Meet the Nakajima Kikka, Japan’s Jet Fighter: On August 6, 1945, the United States Army Air Force B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” dropped a five-ton atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It had a ...
Little more than a year after its destruction of the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, Japan experienced a devastating setback in the Battle of Guadalcanal, which began in August of 1942 and lasted until ...
Here’s What You Need to Know: The Kikka would have been overwhelmed by the massive U.S. land-based and carrier-based formations that roamed over Japan in the last days of the war. It is a fallacy that ...
Hopes are high as Japan's Nakajima Kikka lines up for takeoff. In August 1945, with Allied forces closing in and resources dwindling, this represents Japan's first turbojet-powered aircraft, fitted ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Nakajima Kikka was the only World ...