Air Campaign 56. New Guinea 1942-43 9781472866554

Air Campaign 56. New Guinea 1942-43

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Series Air Campaign 56

Publisher/Brand Osprey

Author Mark Stille

Format a5

No. Pages 96

Version Soft cover

Language English

Category Aviationbooks

Subcategory WW2 » WW2 Pacific

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Product description

Lavishly illustrated, this book studies the role of airpower in the New Guinea battles of 1942–43, as the Allies checked and halted Japan’s last significant offensives.

Mark Stille and John Rogers offer a new history of a previously neglected part of the South Pacific air war – the battles over New Guinea and the waters around it. The first of two books on the subject, drawing on Japanese, American and Australian sources, it details operations from February 1942 until April 1943, which saw the Allies stop the last Japanese efforts to expand their faltering empire.

Allied air operations focused on denying the Japanese the use of the sea to send reinforcements to New Guinea, during the battles for Buna and Gona, the unsuccessful and little-known Japanese invasion at Milne Bay, and the Battle of the Bismarck Sea in which a major Japanese effort to move troops to New Guinea was crushed by air power. While the Japanese had over-extended and lost operational focus, the Allies were successful in interdicting sea movement of Japanese forces to New Guinea. However, immature tactics meant air power was largely ineffective supporting their ground campaign.

Packed with photos, superb original battlescenes, 3D diagrams and maps, this book explains the roles of Japanese and Allied air power in the crucial battle of New Guinea.