Sunburst

This sequel to Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941 (1997), coauthored by Mark Peattie with the late David C. Evans, carries the same themes forward. It tells of the evolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy's aviation arm in its two parts, carrier- and land-based, and of the impact of the war in China from 1937, and explains how the navy's defeat came about. As in the case of the nation itself, this did not result from the B-29 fire raids, or from the atomic bombs, the icing on the cake of Allied victory, but rather from a maritime nation's fundamental weaknesses at sea and a lack of vision that caused it to commit suicide. [End Page 186] The final chapter of Sunburst details some thirty reasons why Japanese naval air lost the war

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