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

About the book >.>.> Years of complacency had left the US Army and US Navy with small forces poor structures and obsolete aircraft. But all that was to change. The desperate battles of Coral Sea and Midway saw the now-mighty US Navy carrier fleet wrest control of the Pacific Ocean from the Japanese. But capture of the Pacific islands was a different matter. It was to take three long years of bitter fighting supported by the Dauntless Hellcat Avenger and Corsair aircraft of the US Navy and Marine Corps to finish that bloody task. Meanwhile in Europe the USAAF was assembling a mighty armada to join the massive aerial bombardment of the German heartland. B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators pounded the Reich by day while escorting P-47 Thunderbolts and P-51 Mustangs swept the Luftwaffe from their path. When freed from supporting the bombers the fighters raced at low level across western Europe blasting trains troops tanks and all else before their guns and rockets. In North Africa and the push through Italy medium bombers reigned supreme while B-24 Liberators pulverised the Reich’s oilfields. In China P-40 Warhawks and P-51 Mustangs fought a brave battle against fierce defence in primitive conditions. And at sea the Catalinas Liberators and Harpoons of the US Navy kept the convoy lanes open waging a devastating campaign against enemy U-boats and shipping in both eastern and western hemispheres. (MP)