The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played --or failed to play--in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea. This is the story of the early battles of the southwest Pacific theatre--the Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Guadalcanal--presented as a single air campaign that began with the Japanese conquest of Rabaul in January 1942. It is a story of both Australian and American airmen who flew and fought in the face of adversity--with incomplete training, inadequate aircraft, and from poorly set up and exposed airfields. And...
The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played --or failed to play--in crucial World ...
