Rabaul 1943-1944: Reducing Japan’s Great Island Fortress (Osprey Air Campaign 2)
Rabaul 1943-1944: Reducing Japan’s Great Island Fortress (Osprey Air Campaign 2)
2018 | ISBN: 1472822447| English | 96 Pages | True PDF | 73 MB
2018 | ISBN: 1472822447| English | 96 Pages | True PDF | 73 MB
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.