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Kokoda Air Strikes

Allied Air Forces in New Guinea, 1942

Anthony Cooper

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English
New South Books
01 July 2014
ABBEY'S CHOICE JULY 2014 ----- 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.
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Imprint:   New South Books
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 231mm,  Width: 147mm,  Spine: 35mm
Weight:   970g
ISBN:   9781742233833
ISBN 10:   174223383X
Pages:   528
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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