Rabaul 1943-44 - Reducing Japan's great island fortress

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. The struggle decided more than the fate of Rabaul. If successful, the Allies would demonstrate a new form of warfare, where air power, with a judicious use of naval and land forces, would eliminate the need to occupy a ground objective in order to control it. As it turned out, the Siege of Rabaul proved to be more just than a successful demonstration of air power - it provided the roadmap for the rest of World War II in the Pacific.>

Product details

• Authors: Mark Lardas, Lardas Mark
• Assisted by: Mark Postlethwaite (Illustration), Mark (Cover Illustrator) Postlethwaite (Illustration), Postlethwaite Mark (Illustration), Adam Tooby (Illustration)
• Publisher: Osprey Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781472822444
• ISBN: 978-1-4728-2244-4
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: Air Campaign; Air Campaign
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Japan, History, HISTORY / Military / World War II, military history, TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / History, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Warfare & defence, Second World War, United States of America, USA, Asian History, Warfare and defence, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Naval forces and warfare, History and Archaeology, Aircraft and aviation