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Rabaul 1943-44

Reducing Japan's great island fortress. Air Campaign

By (author) Mark Lardas
Illustrated by Mark Postlethwaite
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom
Imprint: Osprey Publishing
Published: 21st Sep 2017
Dimensions: w 174mm h 248mm d 15mm
Weight: 305g
ISBN-10: 1472822447
ISBN-13: 9781472822444
Barcode No: 9781472822444
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Synopsis
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.

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