Title Rocky Boyer's war : an unvarnished history of the air blitz that won the war in the Southwest Pacific / Allen D. Boyer

Published Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: a war and a diary -- From Sugar Creek to Salinas -- Shipping out -- An island north of Australia -- The air blitz war -- Port Moresby -- Headquarters -- Palace coup -- First battles -- The new year -- Nadzab -- From minimum altitude -- Quakes and tremors -- Cape Waios -- Summer -- Moving up -- Biak -- Leyte -- Fiasco night: Mindoro -- Home -- Epilogue Summary "Based in part on an unauthorized diary kept by the author's father, 1st Lt. Roscoe "Rocky" Boyer, this narrative history offers the reader an account of Allied air commander Gen. George Kenney's "air blitz" offensive in the Southwest Pacific. At airfields on the front line, Rocky kept the radios working for the 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Group, a fighter-bomber unit. The author uses Rocky's story as a jumping-off point from which to understand the daily life, pranks, mishaps, and casualties, of the men who in 1944 fought their way over the two thousand miles from New Guinea to the Philippines."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Boyer, Roscoe A. -- Diaries SUBJECT Boyer, Roscoe A. fast Subject United States. Army Air Forces. Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 71st -- Biography United States. Army Air Forces. Officers -- Biography SUBJECT United States. Army Air Forces. Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 71st fast Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area -- Aerial operations, American Flight radio operators -- United States -- Biography World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States Flight radio operators Military operations, Aerial -- American Regimental histories 1939-1945. SUBJECT Clinton County (Ind.) -- Biography Subject Indiana -- Clinton County Pacific Area United States Genre/Form Biographies Diaries Form Electronic book LC no. 2017018065 ISBN 1682470970 9781682470978

Other Titles Unvarnished history of the air blitz that won the war in the Southwest Pacific

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