Rabaul 1943–44: Reducing Japan’s great island fortress (Air Campaign Book 2)

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In 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul used to be a fortress standing in the Allies’ path to Tokyo. It used to be not possible to seize Rabaul, or starve the 100,000-strong garrison out. Instead america began an innovative, hard-fought two-year air campaign to attract its teeth, and allow them to bypass the island completely.

The struggle determined 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 do away with the want to occupy a ground objective with a view to keep watch over 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 remainder of World War II in the Pacific.

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