Japanese Aircraft Manuals: A6M Zero, D3A Val, B5N Kate, G4M Betty, E13 Jake, F1M Pete

[castrum8]

Hello all,

In the interest of helping the Pacific Theatre project along, here's flight manuals I photographed at an archive in Japan, they're the 取扱説明書 (basically, "User's Manual") for each of the aircraft.

Zero:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cQdE1y623gswIMbfHdqj2yynwNXt8vs3/view?usp=drive_link

 

D3A Val:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HPqQyE3zBAUuqJMJO9qIfv1Lul_G5eLF/view?usp=drive_link

 

B5N Kate:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kdJKVVqJihiNoWcwxyu8Le2ChbCu_sR5/view?usp=drive_link

 

G4M Betty:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u6940Qkld9AN0VmeooVfDjRaQGl6PmET/view?usp=drive_link

 

E13 Jake:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EPvEyyc-jP72_Ee2Gim2M9VwWveNH4uP/view?usp=drive_link

 

F1M Pete:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-5R63_mRFPgUAlNn2QEsGGbNumpSLErO/view?usp=drive_link

 

Feel free to share, use, translate, anything that helps us fly in the Pacific in DCS!

[Art-J]

Thanks for taking time to photo and upload them.

Have you posted these at Combat Pilot forum as well? Jason's team might find them useful for their project too.

EDIT: B5N file seems to be locked, could you please make it public?

EDIT2: B5N archive is accessible now, thank you.

Edited January 13, 2024 by Art-J