Allen D Boyer

Rocky Boyer's War

An Unvarnished History of the Air Blitz That Won the War in the Southwest Pacific

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Produktbeschreibung

"Based in part on an unauthorized diary kept by the author's father, 1st Lt. Roscoe "Rocky" Boyer, this narrative history offers the reader an account of Allied air commander Gen. George Kenney's "air blitz" offensive in the Southwest Pacific. At airfields on the front line, Rocky kept the radios working for the 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Group, a fighter-bomber unit. The author uses Rocky's story as a jumping-off point from which to understand the daily life, pranks, mishaps, and casualties, of the men who in 1944 fought their way over the two thousand miles from New Guinea to the Philippines."--Provided by publisher.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: US Naval Institute Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781682470961
• ISBN-10: 1682470962
• Artikelnr.: 45810853

Autorenporträt

This is ALLEN D. BOYER's fifth book. His longtime day job was senior appellate counsel at the New York Stock Exchange Enforcement Division. He lives on the North Shore of Staten Island. ROCKY BOYER, on whose diary this book draws, was born in 1919 on a farm in Indiana. He kept the diary while serving with the 5th Air Force in New Guinea and the Philippines. He taught at the University of Mississippi, training a generation of teachers and tirelessly supporting the public schools. He died in 2008.