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Kokoda air strikes : Allied Air Forces in New Guinea, 1942
- Title
- Kokoda air strikes : Allied Air Forces in New Guinea, 1942 / Anthony Cooper.
- Author
- Cooper, Anthony James, 1961-
- Publication
- Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- xx, 507 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played - or failed to play - in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea. This is the story of the early battles of the South West Pacific theatre - the Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Guadalcanal - presented as a single air campaign that began with the Japanese conquest of Rabaul in January 1942. It is a story of both Australian and American airmen who flew and fought in the face of adversity - with incomplete training, inadequate aircraft, and from poorly set up and exposed airfields. And they persisted despite extreme exhaustion, sickness, poor morale and the near certainty of being murdered by their Japanese captors if they went down in enemy territory."--Back cover.
- Alternative Title
- Allied Air Forces in New Guinea, 1942
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 487-492) and index.
- Contents
- Australia's 'advance striking force' -- Losing Rabaul -- Losing Lae and Salamaua -- Fighters at last -- Moresby's pre-invasion 'blitz' -- The Yanks take over -- Combing the Coral Sea -- Preparing for the next push -- Losing Buna -- Losing Kokoda -- Defending the eastern flank -- Turning point at Milne Bay -- The air supply debacle -- Air supremacy by default.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-1349
- ISBN
- 9781742233833
- 174223383X
- 9781742241746 (canceled/invalid)
- 1742241743 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781742246796 (canceled/invalid)
- 1742246796 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 864292034
- Author
- Cooper, Anthony James, 1961- author.
- Title
- Kokoda air strikes : Allied Air Forces in New Guinea, 1942 / Anthony Cooper.
- Publisher
- Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 487-492) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-1349