Rabaul 1943-44Reducing Japan's great island fortress
Reducing Japan's great island fortress
Mark Lardas
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ISBN: | 9781472822444 |
Publisher: | Osprey Publishing |
Published: | 25 January, 2018 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Bloomsbury |
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Rabaul 1943-44Reducing Japan's great island fortress
Reducing Japan's great island fortress
Mark Lardas
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. The struggle decided more than the fate of Rabaul. If successful, the Allies would demonstrate a new form of warfare, where air power, with a judicious use of naval and land forces, would eliminate the need to occupy a ground objective in order to control it. As it turned out, the Siege of Rabaul proved to be more just than a successful demonstration of air power it provided the roadmap for the rest of World War II in the Pacific.
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