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The Cactus Air Force - Air War over Guadalcanal
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The Cactus Air Force - Air War over Guadalcanal
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Loot Price R442
Discovery Miles 4 420
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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. The battle of
Guadalcanal was the first offensive operation undertaken by the US
and its allies in the Pacific War. 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. “Cactus,” the code name for the island, became a
sinkhole for Japanese air and naval power, as they experienced
losses that could never be made good. For 40 years, 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, and thus provide a unique
insight. In The Cactus Air Force, Pacific War expert Thomas
McKelvey Cleaver worked closely with Eric to build on his
collection of diary entries, interviews and first-hand accounts to
create a vivid narrative of the struggle in the air over the island
of Guadalcanal between August 20 and November 15, 1942.
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