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U. S. Navy Uniforms in World War II Series: U. S. Naval Amphibious Forces Review

U. S. Navy Uniforms in World War II Series: U. S. Naval Amphibious Forces
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Jeff Warner has in this Schiffer series of books on the Naval Services' uniforms, equipment and insignia made an indelible and permanent contribution to the reference literature on the subject matter. In fact, it is the ONLY reference work on the subject, due to collector indifference. Mr. Warner labored two+ years on the writing and composition of this and the other volumes, something which neither of the two other reviewers below are either capable of or willing to do. It's easy to carp, it's hard to give birth to something as monumental as Mr. Warner's series of books. In doing the book with Schiffer, he surrendered total editorial control over the content and composition of the book, including the rendition of the photographs he personally composed and took or obtained from NARA. As for the carping about the UDT teams' factual history, it should be noted that the material dealing with them was a VERBATIM "after action report" from the National Archives, without comment by Mr. Warner or intent for it to be a definitive account. Perhaps Mr. O'Dell should take his obviosuly superior PhD knowledge of the subject and produce himself a work worthy of those already recently done on Draper Kauffman and the UDT teams. Until then, he should keep his pontificating caveling to himself!

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Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Uniforms and Equipment Review

Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Uniforms and Equipment
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This is in my opinion THE authorative book on Japanese Military Equipment to 1945. Since I already owned the Japanese version of this I knew it was nothing short of a five star book before ordering the English version. Imagine my disdain to realize more that 80% percent of the text in the book is not translated. The hastily prepared English translation by item number insert was pathetic, translating things like "Medal of the 5th order of the Sacred Treasure" (Japanese) to "medal" in the English version.
If you know what you are doing as a Japanese speaker, militaria collector or military studies major buy this book. Otherwise you may want to look for something more accessible.

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