Kokoda Air Strikes by Anthony Cooper

Kokoda Air Strikes by Anthony Cooper

The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played - or failed to play - in crucial World War I campaigns in New Guinea. This is the story of the early battles of the South West Pacific theatre - the Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Guadalcanal - presented as a single air campaign that began with the Japanese conquest of Rabaul in January 1942. It is a story of both Australian and American airmen who flew and fought in the face of adversity - with incomplete training, inadequate aircraft, and from poorly set up and exposed airfields. And they persisted despite extreme exhaustion, sickness, poor morale and the near certainty of being murdered by their Japanese captors if they went down in enemy territory.

Anthony Cooper is a Brisbane schoolteacher, Australia. He is a former glider pilot instructor, has a PhD in German aviation history and is the author of HMAS Bataan, 1952 and Darwin Spitfires: The real battle for Australia, which won the Northern Territory Chief Minister’s NT History Book Award.

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ISBN 13	9781742233833
ISBN 10	174223383X
Title	Kokoda Air Strikes
Author	Anthony Cooper
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	NewSouth Publishing
Year published	2014-07-01
Number of pages	528
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