Description
| Product ID: | 9781472822444 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IN |
| Series: | Air Campaign |
| Title: | Rabaul 1943–44 |
| Subtitle: | Reducing Japan's great island fortress |
| Authors: | Author: Mark Lardas, Mark Postlethwaite |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Subjects: | Second World War, Second World War, Naval forces and warfare, Air forces and warfare, Naval forces & warfare, Air forces & warfare, Japan, USA, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The story of how Allied air power took the great Japanese base of Rabaul out of the Pacific War with an innovative strategy of aerial siege, backed by the courage and capability of the pilots who flew against the heavily fortified island. In 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul was a fortress standing in the Allies'' path to Tokyo. It was impossible to seize Rabaul, or starve the 100,000-strong garrison out. Instead the US began an innovative, hard-fought two-year air campaign to draw its teeth, and allow them to bypass the island completely. |
| Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-01-25 |
