Rocky Boyer's war : an unvarnished history of the air blitz that won the war in the Southwest Pacific /

"Based in part on an unauthorized diary kept by the author's father, 1st Lt. Roscoe "Rocky" Boyer, this narrative history offers the reader an account of Allied air commander Gen. George Kenney's "air blitz" offensive in the Southwest Pacific. At airfields on the f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boyer, Allen D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2017]
Temas:
Boyer, Roscoe A. > Diaries.
Boyer, Roscoe A
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 71st > Biography.
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Officers > Biography.
United States. > Army Air Forces. > Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 71st
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Pacific Area > Aerial operations, American.
Flight radio operators > United States > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States.
Radionavigants (Navigation aérienne) > États-Unis > Biographies.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Histoire des unités > États-Unis.
Flight radio operators.
Military operations, Aerial > American.
Regimental histories.
1939-1945.
Clinton County (Ind.) > Biography.
Indiana > Clinton County.
Pacific Area.
United States.
Biographies.
Diaries.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a war and a diary
  • From Sugar Creek to Salinas
  • Shipping out
  • An island north of Australia
  • The air blitz war
  • Port Moresby
  • Headquarters
  • Palace coup
  • First battles
  • The new year
  • Nadzab
  • From minimum altitude
  • Quakes and tremors
  • Cape Waios
  • Summer
  • Moving up
  • Biak
  • Leyte
  • Fiasco night: Mindoro
  • Home
  • Epilogue.

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