Solomons Air War. Volume 1: Guadalcanal, August-September 1942
Kent Town, Avonmore Books, 2023.
Small quarto, 248 pages with numerous illustrations (many in colour, including a number of aircraft profiles and a map).
Colour-pictorial card covers; a fine copy.
'This first volume of Solomons Air War chronicles aerial warfare in the opening phase of the war in the Solomons Islands theatre, being the critical period of August-September 1942. After occupying the Solomon Islands capital of Tulagi with ease in May 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy commenced building an airfield on the adjacent island of Guadalcanal. The indispensable airfield was over 600 miles distant from their main base of Rabaul and promised to extend the reach of their aircraft into the Allied occupied island chains of Fiji, the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. Much was at stake and the airfield would be held at all costs.Then, in early August 1942 a bold American invasion of both Tulagi and Guadalcanal caught the IJN completely off guard. Nevertheless, Japanese air power responded swiftly and in some cases desperately. So began the knife-edge struggle for Guadalcanal' (rear cover blurb).
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Price (AUD):
$48.00