The author. Called colonized people "tribesmen" Claims Vickers Six-Tonner direct forefather to both the T-36 and Sherman and further that if John Carden hadn't died in a "(suspicions) accident"(?) that the problem wouldn't have existed.

why they always gotta bring Patton into everything? best I've read are individual unit histories or memoirs, but there are few on the Mediums, and also absolutely ZERO fact checking.

I've been searching forever for a solid 9th AF and or IX TAC books, any recommendations?

A quick flip through December 8th sources reveals he used Senshi Sosho a lot, plus Izawa and a bunch of personal interviews Bartsch did in the 80's Much of the IJA stuff seems to come from Izawa.

December 8th is really good for just explaining how unprepared the AAF was. .50 cals for the P-40s still in cosmoline, because they didn't have much ammo for them, so the pilots training on the planes were unfamiliar with the weight when the time came and they actually put them in.

The first volume had a fair amount of overlap with William Bartsch's Philippines books, but they pretty much agreed, however that was IJN and particularly Tainan Ku, which seems to be the one IJN unit english sources get right, for the most part.

I thought the tracking of the prototype Ki-44 unit was particularly well done.

How well is Christopher Shores' "Air War for Burma" sourced on the IJA side? The first two Bloody Shambles books seemed well documented, but I always have to save up for those purchases so I haven't read the third.

Current cheapest price I can find is somewhere north of $150, so I'll be holding off. Someone on ebay has a signed copy priced at $485, so congrats on that?