Ralph F. Wetterhahn

The Early Air War in the Pacific

Ten Months That Changed the Course of World War II

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During the first 10 months of the war in the Pacific, Japan achieved air supremacy with its carrier and land-based forces. After major setbacks at Midway and at Guadalcanal, the empire's expansion stalled, in part due to flaws in aircraft design, strategy and command. This book offers a fresh analysis of the air war in the Pacific during the early phases of World War II.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781476669977
• ISBN-10: 147666997X
• Artikelnr.: 48916175

Autorenporträt

Ralph F. Wetterhahn is a former Air Force and Navy fighter pilot who served three tours during the Vietnam War. A real-life Indiana Jones, he now travels the globe as an aviation archaeologist in search of missing aircraft/crews and the stories they reveal. He lives in Long Beach, California and writes for Air & Space/Smithsonian.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface
1.
Warhawk and Nate Down, Mariveles Volcano, Bataan Peninsula, Philippines
2.
Admiral Yamamoto's Grand Scheme
3.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
4.
The Rising Sun Boils Up Out of the Pacific
5.
Little Pearl Harbors: Wake and the Philippines
6.
Air Power Versus Sea Power
7.
Wake Hangs On
8.
American Caesar
9.
Chester W. Nimitz 10.
Propaganda 11.
Victory Disease Spreads to Wake and Asia 12.
Malaya and Singapore Fall as the Dutch and British East Indies Begin to Disintegrate 13.
The Siege of the Philippines Begins 14.
The Fall of Sumatra 15.
Java Falls 16.
Sortie into the Indian Ocean 17.
The Philippines Falls 18.
"Eight Seconds Belong to Uncle Sam" 19.
Fall from Grace 20.
The Rising Sun Slides into Penumbra 21.
Guadalcanal Trek 22.
Bataan, Déjà Vu and Then Some Appendix: Aircraft Depictions and Specifications Chapter Notes Bibliography Index