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HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: PART 32 - BANZAI, edited by Sir Basil Liddell Hart and Barrie Pitt, softcover, illustrated with B/W and color photos, 1973. ITEM CONDITION: near fine. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition with no dogears, tears, or marks. There is no bookplate nor signature of a prior owner. This is not a library book nor a remainder. The wraps are in near fine condition. Very good 3-staple binding. 10 ¾ x 8 ¼, 28 pages, 3 ounces XX Part 32 of THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR focuses principally on battles and losses in Asia and the Pacific. This issue's articles are: The Long Retreat: the First Burma Campaign (Since it had long been thought that a land invasion of Burma was very unlikely, the defenses of the country had been seriously neglected. However, by the end of 1941, the Japanese were ready to occupy Burma to protect the northwest flank of their Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. Brigadier Sir John Smyth, who commanded the British ground forces during the first part of the campaign, gives a first-hand account of the unequal battle, and the long retreat?the longest ever made by a British army?back to the Indian border"), Air War in the Far East (During the early months of 1942 the Japanese had achieved almost complete control of the air in the Far East. Allied pilots were unable to cope with the Zero fighter, and Japanese bombers were able to attack land targets and shipping with almost complete safety. Raids on Darwin and Broome led the Australians to believe that a landing on their own soil was imminent?but by June the tide had turned, and Allied fighters and bombers were gaining superiority both in quantity and quality), Battle of the Coral Sea (In the spring of 1942, following their rapid successes during the early months of the war, the Japanese were ready to extend their control over the Coral Sea by capturing Port Moresby in New Guinea?thus isolating Australia, and opening the way for further advances in the southwest. The battle which ensued was the first to be fought entirely by aircraft?no ship on either side made visual contact with the enemy?and when it ended, the Japanese had failed to achieve their objective, and their advance had been checked). In this issue are numerous B/W and color photographs and illustrations, including Japanese tanks crossing a make-shift bridge into Burma, Japanese troops with bicycles, failed British river defenses, British demolishing bridges as they retreat, Japanese 70mm howitzer and machine-gun crews, Japanese patrol in Mandalay railway yard, Japanese seizing Yenangyaung oil field, oil storage tanks blazing in Rangoon, blazing B-17 bomber after Japanese air raid on Bandung airfield in Java, wrecked hangar at Darwin, Japanese bomber crews, Japanese planes (Mitsubishi G4M Betty, Mitsubishi Ki-21 Sally, Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar), American planes (Douglas SBD-III Dauntless, Douglas TBD-I Devastator, Grumman F4F Wildcat), Col. Doolittle's B-25 bombers on Hornet' s flight deck before attack on Tokyo, Doolittle in China after raid, B-25 takes off from an aircraft carrier, Japanese reconnaissance seaplane, Lexington's 40mm flak crews hit back at Japanese air strike, Lexington aircraft-carrier, Shokaku aircraft-carrier, Vice-Admiral Frank J. Fletcher (commander of US carrier force in Battle of the Coral Sea), and various images of the Coral Sea battle. There are also several maps.
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