Under the Southern Cross: The South Pacific Air Campaign Against Rabaul by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
English | May 13th, 2021 | ISBN: 147283822X | 352 pages | True EPUB | 10.27 MB
From August 7, 1942 until February 24, 1944, the US Navy fought the most difficult campaign in its history. Between the landing of the 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal and the final withdrawal of the Imperial Japanese Navy from its main South Pacific base at Rabaul, the US Navy suffered such high personnel losses that for years it refused to publicly release total casualty figures.