Publisher's Synopsis
In the first two years of the Pacific War of World War II, air forces from Japan, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand engaged in a war of aerial attrition over the South Pacific. Strategically crucial, the countries were locked in a struggle for superiority in the skies over the Solomon Islands and New Guinea, employing the most sophisticated technology available in a largely unknown and malignant environment. Using primary sources and interviews with surviving veterans, this book re-creates the fabric of the Pacific air warm.
