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The Cactus Air Force - Air War over Guadalcanal (Hardcover)
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The Cactus Air Force - Air War over Guadalcanal (Hardcover)
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Using diary entries, interviews and first-hand accounts, this vivid
narrative brings to life the struggle in the air over the island of
Guadalcanal between August 20 and November 15, 1942. For 40 years
from 1961, the late Eric Hammel interviewed more than 150 American
participants in the air campaign at Guadalcanal, none of whom are
still alive. These interviews are the most comprehensive
first-person accounts of the battle assembled by any historian.
More importantly, they involved the junior officers and enlisted
men whose stories and memories were not part of the official
history, thus providing a unique insight. The battle of Guadalcanal
was the first offensive operation undertaken by the US and its
allies in the Pacific War. "Cactus," the code name for the island,
became a sinkhole for Japanese air and naval power, experienced
forces whose losses could never be made good. The three months of
air battles between August 20, 1942, when the first Marine air unit
arrived on the island, and November 15, when the last enemy attempt
to retake the island was defeated, were perhaps the most important
of the Pacific War. After November 15, 1942, the US never looked
back as its forces moved across the Pacific to the war's inevitable
conclusion. The Cactus Air Force is a joint project between the
late Eric Hammel and Pacific War expert Thomas McKelvey Cleaver,
and is unlike any other of the many histories of this event that
have been published over the years.
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