Category: History - American
Hunter, Kenneth E. The war against Japan.--2d ed. p. cm.--(United States Army in World War II. Pictorial record) “The text was written and the photographs compiled by Capt. Kenneth E. Hunter and Miss Margaret E. Tackley” Foreword. Includes index. 1. World War, 1939-1945--Campa...
Hunter, Kenneth E. The war against Japan.--2d ed. p. cm.--(United States Army in World War II. Pictorial record) “The text was written and the photographs compiled by Capt. Kenn...
2. Part 2By August 1942 the Allies had established a series of defensive island bases, along an arc reaching from Honolulu to Sydney, which served as steppingstones for the supply system...
3. Part 34. Part 45. Part 5The battle of production and supply, designed to build a foundation to support unprecedented Allied air and naval power, was won during 1942 and 1943, while Japanese air and nav...
6. Part 67. Part 7The last three months of 1944 marked the almost complete destruction of Japanese air power in the Philippines and the defeat of the enemy ground forces on Leyte. In January 1945...
8. Part 8China’s last important supply link with the Allies, the Burma Road, was closed when the Japanese occupied northern Burma in May 1942. Despite her isolation, China resisted the J...
9. Part 9The capture of Iwo Jima gave the Allies bases for fighter planes which were to escort the Superfortresses, based in the Marianas, when they attacked Japan. With Okinawa in U.S....
10. Part 10_Page_ _Source_ _Number_ ---------------------------------------- 4 MC 215 5 SC 120588 6 SC 117032 7 (Top) SC 117037 7 (Bottom) SC 122190 8 SC 127004 9 (Top) SC 127002 9 (Bottom...
11. Part 11Airfields Adak, 191 Amchitka, 190 Australia, 145 Bellows Field, Hawaii, 13 Betio Island, 209 Burma, 429 construction of, 133, 337, 433 Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, 80-81 Hickam...