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I am Eugen Pinak from Kyiv, Ukraine.
Though not a professional historian, I'm interested in military history since childhood. For now, my historical research is mostly concentrated on the Imperial Japanese military and militaries of the Twentieth-century Ukraine.
For many years I've published my research mostly in Ukrainian and Russian (you can see the list of my publications below), but if you really want to have a broad auditory for such specific topic, as Japanese military, you have to write in English.
This website has no particular research specialization, though for now I’m concentrating on the organization of the IJA and the IJN, especially their air forces. Also, I’ll port translations of interesting Japanese information and original documents about Japanese military in English.
Note, that big research topics like lists of air units are works in progress to be updated when I’ll find new information. There is still a lot to learn for me about this topic. But I hope even those drafts will be useful to other researchers of the Japanese aviation.
I'll be grateful for any additions, corrections or comments.
My email: pinak77@yahoo.com
My blog: https://vijsko.blogspot.com/
My Twitter: https://twitter.com/EugenPinak
Ukrainian armies
- Ukrainian Armies 1914-55 (Peter Abbott, Eugene Pinak) Osprey Publishing, “Man At Arms” Series Number 412, 2004. ISBN: 9781841766683 [in English]
- Ukrainian Galician Army 1918-1920 (Mykola Chmir, Eugen Pinak, Sergiy Muzychuk), 2008. ISBN: 978-966-2096-19-4
- The Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921 (Eugen Pinak, Mykola Chmir), 2017. ISBN: 6171233994, 9786171233997
- Armed forces of the Ukrainian State – an organization (April 29 - December 14, 1918) (in “Ukrainian State - a few lessons. Pavlo Skoropadsky. A look through 100 years”), 2018. ISBN: 9786171252769
- Brigades of the Galician Army; Corpses of the Galician Army (in the encyclopedia “Western-Ukrainian People’s Republic 1918-1923. An Encyclopedia”), 2018. ISBN: 978-966-2067-44-6
Imperial Japanese Navy
- Japanese aircraft carriers of World War II. “Dragons” of Pearl Harbor and Midway. Second edition, expanded and improved. (Eugen Pinak, Vladimir Sidorenko), 2021. ISBN: 978-5-04-148577-1 [about IJN medium aircraft carriers]
- Japanese aircraft carriers of World War II. “Dragons” of Pearl Harbor and Midway (Eugen Pinak, Vladimir Sidorenko), 2010. ISBN: 5699402314, 9785699402311 [about IJN medium aircraft carriers, 1st edition]
- “Samurais” of the Japanese fleet. Destroyers of the “Matsu” and “Tachibana” classes, 2013. ISBN: 978-5-699-65434-5
- Seaplane carriers of the Second World War. Eyes of the Japanese Navy (Vladimir Sidorenko, Eugen Pinak), 2010. ISBN: 978-5-699-71001-0 [about IJN seaplane carriers]
- Torpedo boats of the "Tidori" and "Otori" classes (“Naval Campaign” magazine No. 2016-12 (64))
- Japońskie torpedowce typów "Chidori" and "Otori" (“Okręty Wojenne” magazine Nr 144 (4/2017), Nr 145 (5/2017), Nr 146 (6/2017), Nr 147 (1/2018)) [in Polish]
- Both in work and in battle. Passenger-and-freight ships of “Kamikawa-maru” class type during the war and peace (Vladimir Sidorenko, Eugen Pinak) (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine No. 2012-03 (3)) [about IJN converted seaplane carriers]
- Designing the super-battleships of the Japanese navy (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine No. 2012-08 (02))
- Flying boats tender “Akitsushima” (Vladimir Sidorenko, Eugen Pinak) (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine 2013-09 (15))
- 1st class fast transports of the Japanese Imperial Navy (Vladimir Sidorenko, Eugen Pinak) (in “Arsenal-Collection” magazine 2016-07 (49))
- 1st class destroyer of the Japanese Imperial Navy “Shimakaze” - Wind over the islands (Vladimir Sidorenko, Eugen Pinak) (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine 2018-08 (74))
- Japanese minesweepers “No. 101” or W-101-class (“Naval Campaign” magazine No. 2018-???)
- Rank insignia of the Japanese Imperial Navy 1914-1945 (“Collection” magazine No. 2018-10)
Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force
- Aircraft designation systems of the Japanese Imperial Navy (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine No. 2013-04)
- 1st Air Group (later 752nd air group) - 1941-1945 (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine No. 2014-10 (28))
- 2nd (later 582nd) Air Group (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine No. 2015-02 (32))
- 3rd (later 202nd) Air Group of the Japanese Imperial Navy (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine No. 2015-05 (35))
- 4th (702nd) Air Group of the Japanese Imperial Navy (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine No. 2015-08 (38))
- 5th (452nd) Air Group of the Japanese Imperial Navy (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine No. 2016-02 (44))
- 6th (204th) Air Group of the Japanese Imperial Navy (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine No. 2016-05 (47))
- 7th (16th), 8th (18th), 17th, 19th (952nd), 21st (902nd), 32nd Air Group Aviation of the Imperial Japanese Navy (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine No. 2016-08 (50))
- 11-16th, 21-23rd Air Groups - air groups for the Chinese theater of operations (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine No. 2017-03 (57))
- 31st (954th), 32nd (902nd), 33rd (932nd), 35th (956th), 36th (934th), 40th (936th) Air Groups of Japanese naval aviation (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine No. 2017-06 (60))
- 14th (802nd) Air Group of the Japanese Imperial Navy (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine No. 2017-08 (62))
- Yokosuka Air Group (“Arsenal-Collection” magazine No. 2018-03 (69))
Japanese Imperial Army
- Rank insignia of the Japanese Imperial Army 1930-1945 (“Collection” magazine No. 2017-09)
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
- Shoulder sleeve insignia of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces units (“Collection” magazine No. 2017-08)
World War II in the Pacific and Asia
- Ormoc
Bay naval battle on December 3, 1944 - The last victory of IJN surface ships
(scientific journal “American History and Politics” No. 3, 2017)
You can read it online here > http://www.americanstudies.history.knu.ua/en/ ormoc-bay-naval-battle-on-december-3-1944-the-last-victory-of-ijn-surface-ships/
- Preparation of US Armed Forces for the war with Japan: plans and reality (scientific journal “American History and Politics’ No. 4, 2017)
You can read it online here > http://www.americanstudies.history.knu.ua/en/preparation-of-us-armed-forces-for-the-war-with-japan-plans-and-reality/
Spanish Civil War
- Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Uniforms of the participants (“Odnostriy” magazine No. 2004-08)
Italian Royal Air Force
- Franco Luccini - “Lucky” (“Aviation and Time” magazine No. 2004-02)
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