Doomed at the Start

During the first three days of the Japanese assault on American Pacific bases in December of 1941, the 24th Pursuit Group, the only unit of interceptor aircraft in the Philippine Islands, was almost destroyed as an effective force. Yet the group’s pilots, doomed from the start by their limited training, an inadequate air warning system, and lack of familiarity with the few flyable pursuit aircraft they had left, fought on against immensely superior number of Japanese army and navy fighters.

A propos de l'auteur

William H. Bartsch is the author of two other books published by Texas A&M University press: the award-winning December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor (2003) and Every Day a Nightmare (2010). Bartsch, a former United Nations development economist and independent consultant now exclusively researching and writing on the Pacific War, lives in Reston, Virginia.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: William H. Bartsch
• Edition: Reveille Books
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 12.02.1992
• EAN: 9780890966792
• ISBN: 978-0-89096-679-2
• Pages: 528
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 31 mm
• Poids: 848 g
• Thèmes: Williams-Ford Texas A&M Univer; Williams-Ford Texas A&M Univer
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Théories de l'Etat et administration politique