With four engines, a 4,000-mile range, and powerful defensive armament, the Kawanishi H8K was unlike any other flying boat of its era. Built to project power across the Pacific, it served in ...

A Japanese Kawanishi H8K (Allied code name ‘Emily’) flying boat, the same type used in a follow-up attack on Pearl Harbor on March 4, 1942, is seen in flight in July 1944 in a photo taken from ...