Kokoda Air Strikes

Allied air forces in New Guinea, 1942
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-74223-383-3
Verlag: NewSouth

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 793 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Anthony

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony Cooper is a Brisbane schoolteacher, Australia. He is a former glider pilot instructor, has a PhD in German aviation history and is the author of HMAS Bataan, 1952 and Darwin Spitfires: The real battle for Australia, which won the Northern Territory Chief Minister’s NT History Book Award.