My latest podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it, I interview Jürgen Melzer about his history of the transnational factors in the development of Japanese aviation (which I reviewed here). Enjoy!
When the United States went to war against Japan in 1941, American pilots were shocked by the superior quality of the planes flown by their opponents. Believing that the Japanese were inferior technological copyists, the greater capability of many Japanese aircraft models quickly disabused them of t...