Pacific Adversaries – Volume Two
$59.90
Pacific Adversaries – Volume Two: Imperial Japanese Navy vs The Allies. New Guinea and the Solomons 1942 – 1944.
This large format paperback by Michael Claringbould is packed with photos, maps and diagrams – both in colour, and black and white.
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This Volume Two of Pacific Adversaries conveys detailed stories of aerial warfare in the South Pacific, chosen because both Japanese and Allied records can be matched for an accurate accounting. Often the actual outcomes are very different to the exaggerated claims made by both sides upon which many traditional histories have relied to date. Further for each of the chosen stories photographic or other evidence enables an accurate depiction of the aircraft involved.
Through these chosen snapshots, Pacific Adversaries will portray the South Pacific conflict as accurately as possible. This second volume focuses exclusively on confrontations with the Japanese Navy Air Force (JNAF) in New Guinea and the Solomons, known to the Japanese as the ‘South Seas’.
The JNAF first appekared in the South Pacific in December 1941 and was at the vanguard of offensive efforts during the course of 1942. Following the bloody Guadalcanal campaign, the JNAF offered significant resistance to the Allies and never ceded air superiority in the vicinity of its key base of Rabaul. Only in 1944, when the units were withdrawn to the Central Pacific and the Philippines, was the JNAF presence in the South Pacific finally wound down to just a token force.
New before have detailed accounts matched up adversaries so closely and in doing so shine light on key events in the Pacific skies so many years ago.
