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Under the Southern Cross - The South Pacific Air Campaign Against Rabaul (Hardcover)
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Under the Southern Cross - The South Pacific Air Campaign Against Rabaul (Hardcover)
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From August 7, 1942 until February 24, 1944, the US Navy fought the
most difficult campaign in its history. Between the landing of the
1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal and the final withdrawal of the
Imperial Japanese Navy from its main South Pacific base at Rabaul,
the US Navy suffered such high personnel losses that for years it
refused to publicly release total casualty figures. The Solomons
campaign saw the US Navy at its lowest point, forced to make use of
those ships that had survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
and other units of the pre-war navy that had been hastily
transferred to the Pacific. 140 days after the American victory at
Midway, USS Enterprise was the only pre-war carrier left in the
South Pacific and the US Navy would have been overwhelmed in the
face of Japanese naval power had there been a third major fleet
action. At the same time, another under-resourced campaign had
broken out on the island of New Guinea. The Japanese attempt to
reinforce their position there had led to the Battle of the Coral
Sea in May and through to the end of the year, American and
Australian armed forces were only just able to prevent a Japanese
conquest of New Guinea. The end of 1942 saw the Japanese stopped in
both the Solomons and New Guinea, but it would take another 18
hard-fought months before Japan was forced to retreat from the
South Pacific. Under the Southern Cross draws on extensive
first-hand accounts and new analysis to examine the Solomons and
New Guinea campaigns which laid the groundwork for Allied victory
in the Pacific War.
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