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Bougainville, 1943-1945: The Forgotten Campaign
Harry A. Gailey
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Description for Bougainville, 1943-1945: The Forgotten Campaign
Paperback. The 1943 invasion of Bougainville, largest and northernmost of the Solomon Islands, and the naval battles during the campaign for the island, contributed heavily to the defeat of the Japanese in the Pacific War. This work is an account of the long and bitter fighting that took place. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MKLS; HBJD; HBJM; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 381.
" The 1943 invasion of Bougainville, largest and northernmost of the Solomon Islands, and the naval battles during the campaign for the island, contributed heavily to the defeat of the Japanese in the Pacific War. Here Harry Gailey presents the definitive account of the long and bitter fighting that took place on that now all-but-forgotten island. A maze of swamps, rivers, and rugged hills overgrown with jungle, Bougainville afforded the Allies a strategic site for airbases from which to attack the Japanese bastion of Rabaul. By February of 1944 the Japanese air strength at Rabaul had indeed been wiped out ... Read more
" The 1943 invasion of Bougainville, largest and northernmost of the Solomon Islands, and the naval battles during the campaign for the island, contributed heavily to the defeat of the Japanese in the Pacific War. Here Harry Gailey presents the definitive account of the long and bitter fighting that took place on that now all-but-forgotten island. A maze of swamps, rivers, and rugged hills overgrown with jungle, Bougainville afforded the Allies a strategic site for airbases from which to attack the Japanese bastion of Rabaul. By February of 1944 the Japanese air strength at Rabaul had indeed been wiped out ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813190471
SKU
V9780813190471
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Ref
99-24
About Harry A. Gailey
Harry A. Gailey, professor of history at San Jose State University, is the author of The Liberation of Guam and Peleliu, 1944.
Reviews for Bougainville, 1943-1945: The Forgotten Campaign
Gailey's extensively researched and well-written account revives this nearly forgotten component of the Pacific War. - Naval Institute Proceedings; ""Gailey has mined operations reports and official histories and employed interviews and oral histories to reconstruct the fighting."" - Journal of American History; ""A worthwhile account of an important campaign."" - Airpower Journal