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South Pacific Air War Volume 6 : Wau to Bismarck Sea, January - March 1943 by Michael Claringbould and Peter Ingman (2025, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAvonmore Books
ISBN-100975642367
ISBN-139780975642368
eBay Product ID (ePID)4075303408
Product Key Features
Book TitleSouth Pacific Air War Volume 6 : Wau to Bismarck Sea, January-March 1943
Number of Pages180 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary Science, Military / Aviation, World, Australia & New Zealand
Publication Year2025
GenreTechnology & Engineering, History
AuthorMichael Claringbould, Peter Ingman
Book SeriesSouth Pacific Air War Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length9.8 in
Item Width6.9 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number6
Dewey Decimal940.5426
SynopsisVolume Six of this series chronicles aerial warfare in the New Guinea theatre in the critical period of January to March 1943. It can be read alone or as a continuation of the previous five volumes which span the first thirteen months of the Pacific War.January 1943 saw a successful Japanese supply and reinforcement convoy arrive at Lae from Rabaul, in the face of fierce opposition from Allied air power. The fresh troops soon threatened to overrun the Australian mountain stronghold of Wau, before a massive airlift by Fifth Air Force C-47s delivered reinforcements just in time.Meanwhile the air war over New Guinea was increasingly fought by newly arrived JAAF units who shared the air war burden alongside their veteran IJN counterparts. Against this background many of the Fifth Air Force bomber squadrons moved up from Australia to Port Moresby. This greatly increased the combat efficiency of these units, enabling, among other things, sustained daily pressure on the Japanese bastion of Rabaul.Then in March 1943 the Japanese sent a second convoy from Rabaul to Lae which resulted in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, one of the landmark combats of the entire Pacific War. Using refined attack and bombing tactics, Fifth Air Force and RAAF squadrons conducted an all-out ship-destroying effort which made world headlines.Never before has this campaign been chronicled in such detail, with Allied and Japanese accounts matched for a factual and thoroughly detailed account of the conflict.
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