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Japan s secret weapon one of the bestkept secrets of world war ii was japan s plan to bomb the panama canal with an innovative secret weapon unlike anything its enemies possessed. Japan in the shadow of big science, university press of kansas, 2005. Secret weapons and world war ii university press of kansas. The following is a list of japanese military equipment of world war ii which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels, and other support equipment of both the imperial japanese army ija, and imperial japanese navy ijn from operations conducted from start of second sinojapanese war in 1937 to the end of world war ii in 1945 the empire of japan forces conducted operations over a variety. Writers secret weapon presents quick ideas to get you going in a number of areas.
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