Rabaul 1943–44: Reducing Japan's great island fortress
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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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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Mark Lardas
Mark Postlethwaite (Illustrator) - Language
- English
- Series
- Air Campaign
- ISBN
- 9781472822468
- Release date
- 2018
- Volume
- 2
