Kokoda air strikes : allied air forces in New Guinea, 1942 / Anthony Cooper.

Collection type	Library
Author	Cooper, Anthony James, 1961-, author.;
Call Number	940.542653 C776k
Document type	Monograph
Year	2014.
Pagination	xx, 507 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher	NewSouth Publishing,
Note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-492) and index. 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 ter ritory.
Place made	Sydney, NSW :

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