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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> At the outbreak of the Pacific war on 7 December 1941 the United States Army Air Force had four organizations that would be directly involved with the war against the Japanese; two the Far East Air Force based in the Philippine Islands and the Hawaiian Air Force were committed to the fighting from the first day. Much of the strength of the FEAF was lost when Japanese aircraft attacked airfields in the Philippines and a large number of aircraft were destroyed when Hawaiian airfields were attacked by Japanese carrier aircraft during the Pearl Harbor operation. Small units in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands were soon formed into an Alaskan Air Force while the 4th Air Force was on the West Coast of the USA. All four of these organizations had bomber aircraft assigned to them. The activities of the Alaskan and West Coast USA- based air forces were at this stage limited to patrolwork seeking Japanese submarines and guarding against a possible Japanese naval assault anywhere in their re- spective areas.