South Pacific Air War Volume 5: Crisis in Papua September - December 1942
South Pacific Air War Volume 5: Crisis in Papua September - December 1942 Volume Five of this series chronicles aerial warfare primarily in the New Guinea theater in the critical period between…
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South Pacific Air War Volume 5: Crisis in Papua September - December 1942
Volume Five of this series chronicles aerial warfare primarily in the New Guinea theater in the critical period between September and December 1942. From their new Buna beachhead, the Japanese Army commenced a Papuan mountain campaign which threatened the Allied bastion of Port Moresby. It can be read alone or as a continuation of the previous four volumes which span the first nine months of the Pacific War.By early September the strategic picture in the theater had changed markedly within just six weeks.
While this was being conducted by P-39s, P-40Es, A-20As and B-25s, raids by B-17s against Rabaul aided US forces in the neighboring Solomons. RAAF Meanwhile the battle for Guadalcanal was raging, with the outcome of the wider Pacific War in the balance.Against this background a strengthened US Fifth Air Force took the fight to the IJA with direct air support.
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