Why the Axis had NO Heavy Bombers

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Bibliography/Sources on Japan

Agawa, Hiroyuki. The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy. Trans. John Bester. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1979.
Domoto-Eleftheriou, Kiri and George Eleftheriou. Arawasi Eagle Eye Series, No. 3: Mitsubishi Ki-21 “Sally” and Fiat BR.20 “Cicogna.
Drea, Edward J. Japan’s Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853-1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
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Ferkl, Martin. Mitsubishi G4M Betty. Ostrava: Revi Publications, 2002.
Francillon, René J. Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War. 2nd edition. London: Putnam Books, 1979.
Goodwin, Mike and Peter Starkings. Japanese Aero-Engines, 1910-1945. Sandomierz: MMP Books, 2017.
Melzer, Jürgen P. Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020.
Mikesh, Robert C. and Shorzoe Abe. Japanese Aircraft, 1910-1941. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1990.
Peattie, Mark R. Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001.
Tagaya, Osamu. Osprey Combat Aircraft 22: Mitsubishi Type 1 Rikko ‘Betty’ Units of World War 2. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2001.
Yokoyama, Hisayuki. “Air Operational Leadership in the Southern Front: Imperial Army Aviation’s trial to be an ‘air force’ in the Malaya offensive air operation.” In British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-1945. Ed. Brian Bond and Kyoichi Tachikawa. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Email correspondence with historian Osamu Tagaya. March 11-29, 2025.

Bibliography/Sources on Germany

Edward Homze, Arming the Luftwaffe, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 1976.
Horst Boog. Die deutsche Luftwaffenführung 1935-1945 - Führungsprobleme, Spitzengliederung, Generalstabsausbildung. DVA: Stuttgart, 1982.
Horst Boog. “Die Luftwaffe” in Horst Boog, Jürgen Förster, Joachim Hoffmann, Ernst Klink, Rolf-Dieter Muller und Gerd R. Ueberschar. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg - Band 4: Der Angriff auf die Sowjetunion. DVA: Stuttgart, 1983.
James Corum, The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940, University Press of Kansas, 1997.
Karl-Heinz Völker, Die deutsche Luftrüstung 1933-1939, DVA, 1967.
Klaus A Maier & Bernd Stegemann, Einsatzvorstellungen und Lagebeurteilungen der Luftwaffe und der Marine bis Kriegsbeginn, in Maier et al (eds), das Deutsche Reich und der zweite Weltkrieg, Band 2, DVA: Stuttgart, 1979.
Klaus Schmider, in Me 264 Amerikabomber - Germany's Strategic Bomber Against The USA, 14 December 2023. Available at:    • Me 264 Amerikabomber - Germany's Strategic...  
Klaus Schmider, Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation: Why Germany Declared War on the United States, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Sönke Neitzel, Der Einsatz der deutschen Luftwaffe über dem Atlantik und der Nordsee 1939-1945, Bernard & Graefe Verlag.
Manfred Griehl, Joachim Dressel. Heinkel He 177 - 277 - 274, Airlife Publishing, 1998.
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Willian Green, Aircraft of the Third Reich, Series, Midsommer Books Ltd.

Timecodes
00:00:00 - Axis Long-Range Bombers
00:01:02 - Japanese Long-Range Bombers
00:05:22 - German Designs: Junkers G.38
00:09:16 - K.51/Type 82
00:10:52 - Type 92 Heavy Bomber
00:13:03 - A Change in Policy?
00:16:15 - G5N1 Shinzan
00:22:00 - G8N Renzan
00:24:06 - Ki-91
00:25:19 - G10N "Fugaku"
00:27:08 - Where They Any Good?
00:29:00 - Was It Even Needed?
00:32:09 - Japanese Navy
00:36:16 - Inoue Shigeyoski
00:46:31 - Japanese Army
00:48:59 - Sugawara Michio
00:52:08 - Army Malaya Campaign
00:59:50 - Opportunity Cost
01:04:49 - Concluding on Japan
01:07:47 - The German Luftwaffe
01:08:39 - Early Thinking on Heavy Bombers
01:14:09 - German Doctrine
01:19:15 - German Industry
01:21:07 - Death of Walter Wever
01:24:56 - What About Britain, Soviet Union and America?
01:30:22 - Changes: Return of the strategic Bomber?
01:32:17 - Threat in Being?
01:37:21 - Fw 200 Condor
01:42:39 - He 177
01:50:20 - Amerikabomber
01:56:37 - Basing the Amerikabomber
02:02:54 - V-1/V-2 (Fi-103/A-4)
02:12:06 - Concluding on the Germans

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