The South Pacific, as Eric Bergerud points out at the start of this book, was an unlikely place to develop into a battlefield during the Second World War. Lacking natural resources or any geographic significance in its own right, its proximity to the more important locations of Southeast Asia made i...
This book is a very, very thorough account on the air battle for the South Pacific 1942-44. Describing anything from tactics, strategy, industrial capacity, logistics, training of personnel, the capacity to develop new, second generation fighters and bombers to diseases and the standard of living fo...