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.>

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mark Lardas, Lardas Mark
• Con la collaborazione di: Mark Postlethwaite (Illustrazione), Mark (Cover Illustrator) Postlethwaite (Illustrazione), Postlethwaite Mark (Illustrazione), Adam Tooby (Illustrazione)
• Editore: Osprey Publishers
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781472822444
• ISBN: 978-1-4728-2244-4
• Pagine: 96
• Dimensioni: 180 mm x 244 mm x 8 mm
• Serie: Air Campaign; Air Campaign
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Politica e sua amministrazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > XX° secolo (fino al 1945); 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