Very enjoyable read, full book on a subject that in very general history of the pacific theater gets a sentence or two at the most. I always like when an author is able to write a book where the personal naratives are used to tell a story, instead of some authors who are simply trying to tell per...
Not only were they expected to defend an enormous region with inadequate weapons and equipment, they knew very little about the enemy they would have to face. Few people in the Western world did.Only a few decades earlier, the island nation of Japan had been a feudal state, developmentally backwa...
For the past several months, Kenney had watched with guarded amusement as his two veteran heavy bomb groups, the 43rd and the 90th, competed with each other. Eventually the competition degenerated into a full-blown dispute, later coined “The Big Feud” by a correspondent for Yank magazine.The riva...
The greatest irony was the insignificance of the American effort: twelve bombers, no fighter escort.Only two days later, the Japanese launched more than eight times as many aircraft from Rabaul to attack Port Moresby. Considering the high costs of the recent battles for Guadalcanal and Buna, it w...