| Description |
1 online resource (x, 390 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-378) and index. |
| Contents |
A pirate goes to Washington -- Stepping stones: the Elkton Plan -- New Guinea graveyard -- The heart of darkness -- Lethal moonlight -- Zeamer and Sarnoski -- The big feud -- Wewak -- Hornet's nest -- Primary colors -- The buccaneers attack -- Stormy weather -- Bloody Tuesday -- Redemption for the Pond Lily -- Carrier raid redux -- Ferdinand the bull -- The twisted code -- Transition -- The ace race -- The feeding frenzy -- Fortress rubble -- Island of despair -- Glory. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
As the final book in Bruce Gamble's esteemed trilogy on the War in the Pacific, Target: Rabaul picks up where Fortress Rabaul, the second installment, leaves off and sets the stage for the major Allied aerial engagements of 1943 which would result in the defeat of Japan. March 1943, Washington, D.C.: Major General George Kenney, commander of the 5th Air Force, begins to formulate plans for Operation Cartwheel a mission to neutralize Rabaul, Japan's most notorious stronghold, with the use of unescorted daylight bombing raids against the base and the heavily-defended satellite installations nearby. But the undertaking would prove to be anything but straightforward, and the story of Rabaul's destruction remains one of the most gripping of World War II's Pacific Theater. In Target: Rabaul, award-winning military historian Bruce Gamble expertly narrates the Allied air raids against the stronghold: the premature celebrations by... |
| Subject |
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Papua New Guinea -- Rabaul.
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Rabaul (Papua New Guinea) -- History, Military -- 20th century.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
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Military operations, Aerial. (OCoLC)fst01710198
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Papua New Guinea -- Rabaul.
(OCoLC)fst01229869
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Rabaul (Papua New Guinea) -- History, Military -- 20th century.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Papua New Guinea -- Rabaul.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Military history. (OCoLC)fst01411630
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gamble, Bruce. Target Rabaul 9780760344071 (DLC) 2013027970 (OCoLC)827257199 |
| ISBN |
9781610589574 (electronic bk.) |
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1610589572 (electronic bk.) |
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1306183235 (electronic bk.) |
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9781306183239 (electronic bk.) |
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