The Reduction of Truk
Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1947
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1947
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : United States. War Department
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 1947
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Author : Mark Lardas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 2021-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1472845862
A fully illustrated history of how the US Navy destroyed Truk, the greatest Japanese naval and air base in the Pacific, with Operation Hailstone, and how B-29 units and the carriers of the British Pacific Fleet kept the base suppressed until VJ-Day. In early 1944, the island base of Truk was a Japanese Pearl Harbor; a powerful naval and air base that needed to be neutralized before the Allies could fight their way any further towards Tokyo. But Truk was also the most heavily defended naval base outside the Japanese Home Islands and an Allied invasion would be costly. Long-range bombing against Truk intact would be a massacre so a plan was conceived to neutralize it through a series of massive naval raids led by the growing US carrier fleet. Operation Hailstone was one of the most famous operations ever undertaken by American carriers in the Pacific. This book examines the rise and fall of Truk as a Japanese bastion and explains how in two huge raids, American carrier-based aircraft reduced it to irrelevance. Also covered is the little-known story of how the USAAF used the ravaged base as a live-fire training ground for its new B-29s -- whose bombing raids ensured Truk could not be reactivated by the Japanese. The pressure on Truk was kept up right through 1945 when it was also used as a target for the 509th Composite Squadron to practise dropping atomic bombs and by the British Pacific Fleet to hone its pilots' combat skills prior to the invasion of Japan.
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Cultural property
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Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 1947
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Wake Island
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
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ISBN : 1428915893
Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 1947
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : John Miller
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Pacific Theater
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This volume attempts to analyze the techniques by which the Allies employed their strength to bypass fortified positions and seize weakly defended but strategically important areas, or, in the apt baseball parlance used by General MacArthur, to "hit 'em where they ain't." It is, therefore, a study in strategy and high command as well as in tactics.
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Page : 912 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic government information
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