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Operation Plum : the ill-fated 27th Bombardment Group and the fight for the Western Pacific

Title
Operation Plum : the ill-fated 27th Bombardment Group and the fight for the Western Pacific / Adrian R. Martin and Larry W. Stephenson.
Author
Martin, Adrian R. (Adrian Robert), 1944-
Publication
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2008.

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Additional Authors
Stephenson, Larry W.
Description
xv, 364 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
Summary
They went in as confident young warriors. They came out as battle-scarred veterans, POW camp survivors ... or worse. The Army Air Corps' 27th Bombardment Group arrived in the Philippines in November 1941 with 1,209 men; one year later, only 20 returned to the United States. The Japanese attacked the Philippines on the same morning as Pearl Harbor and invaded soon after. Allied air routes back to the Philippines were soon cut, forcing pilots to fight their air war from bases in Java, Australia, and New Guinea. The men on Bataan were eventually taken prisoner and forced into the infamous Death March. The 27th and other such units were pivotal in delaying the Japanese timetable for conquest. If not for these units, some have suggested, the Allied offensive in the Pacific might have started in Hawaii or even California instead of New Guinea and the surrounding islands. Based largely on primary materials, including a fifty-nine-page report written by the surviving unit members in September 1942, Operation PLUM (from the code name for the U.S. Army in the Philippines) gives an account of the 27th Bombardment Group and, through it, the opening months of the Pacific theater. Military historians and readers interested in World War II will appreciate the rich perspective presented in Operation PLUM. -- Publisher's Description.
Series Statement
Texas A & M University military history series ; 117
Uniform Title
Texas A & M University military history series ; 117.
Subject
  • United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group (Light), 27th
  • United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group (L), 27th
  • USA Bombardment Group (Light) 27
  • 1939-1945
  • Geschichte 1941-1942
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Area
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States
  • Military operations, Aerial > American
  • Military campaigns
  • Regimental histories
  • Flugzeugführer
  • Pazifikkrieg 1941-1945
  • Pacific Area
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-348) and index.
Contents
1. Nearing the brink of world conflict -- 2. "This rumor has gone too far!" -- 3. War begins -- 4. Fighting on Bataan -- 5. Escape to Java -- 6. March and command changes -- 7. Royce's Raid : overshadowed by Doolittle -- 8. "No mama, no papa, No Uncle Sam" -- 9. Air missions over the Coral Sea and beyond -- 10. The changing tides of war -- 11. POW camps and hell ships -- 12. "When Johnny comes marching home again. -- Epilogue : lesson learned.
ISBN
  • 9781603440196
  • 1603440194
LCCN
2007048110
OCLC
  • ocn182553024
  • 182553024
  • SCSB-1482028
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library