Operation KE: The Cactus Air Force and the Japanese Withdrawal from Guadalcanal

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Автор: Roger & Dennis Letourneau

Название: Operation KE: The Cactus Air Force and the Japanese Withdrawal from Guadalcanal

Издательство: Naval Institute Press

Год: 2012

ISBN: 1591144469

Формат: PDF (e-book)

Размер: 5 Mb

Страниц: 417

Язык: English

Operation KE focuses on the air war fought between the Cactus and US 13th Air Forces on the one hand and the Japanese Navy and Army Air Forces on the other, from mid-December, 1942 to mid-February, 1943. The book scrutinizes the US air strikes against the six KE-related Tokyo Express destroyer runs, plus related air strikes against the Japanese merchant marine, as well as air and naval base-suppression missions undertaken by both sides, to determine what actually happened in order to analyze why the Japanese evacuation succeeded and why Cactus failed to stop it.