With the help of some of the world's foremost aviation historians, HISTORY UNDERCOVER® reveals how, at the end of the war, Japan was close to unveiling a new generation of rocket and jet-powered planes that could have turned the tide of the conflict. Working from plans provided by their German allies, Japanese engineers refined (and often improved) the Nazi designs in an attempt to prepare a feasible defense to the anticipated American invasion. Though they were too late to help in the war effort, these designs proved their worth in the years after World War II, helping to launch the Japanese rocket program in the '50s and '60s
