Fire In The Sky

The Air War In The South Pacific

By: Eric M. Bergerud

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Paperback | 13 April 2001 | Edition Number 1

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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 ruthless struggle for superiority in the skies over the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. Despite operating under primitive conditions in a largely unknown and malignant physical environment, both sides employed the most sophisticated technology available at the time in a strategically crucial war of aerial attrition. In one of the largest aerial campaigns in history, the skies of the South Pacific were dominated first by the dreaded Japanese Zeros, then by Allied bombers, which launched massed raids at altitudes under fifty feet, and finally by a ferocious Allied fighter onslaught led by a cadre of the greatest aces in American military history. Utilizing primary sources and scores of interviews with surviving veterans of all ranks and duties, Eric Bergerud recreates the fabric of the air war as it was fought in the South Pacific. He explores the technology and tactics, the three-dimensional battlefield, and the leadership, living conditions, medical challenges, and morale of the combatants. The reader will be rewarded with a thorough understanding of how air power functioned in World War II from the level of command to the point of fire in air-to-air combat.

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Non-Fiction History General & World History Warfare & Defence Air Forces & Warfare Military History Second World War Regional & National History Australasian & Pacific History European History Engineering & Technology Other Technologies & Applied Sciences

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List of Maps	p. ix
Important Military Terms, Acronyms, and Place-names	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Maps	p. xxiii
The Three-Dimensional Battlefield	p. 1
Defining the Battlefield: Air-Base Networks	p. 5
War in an Unlikely Place: Japanese Air-Base Networks in the South Pacific	p. 5
Sites for Victory: Allied Base Networks	p. 49
The Land and Air	p. 95
Modern War in a Primitive Place	p. 97
A Malignant Land	p. 125
A Dangerous Sky	p. 137
Machines and Men in the South Pacific	p. 155
Japanese Warplanes	p. 189
Japanese Navy Aircraft	p. 199
Japanese Army Aircraft	p. 219
Allied Aircraft	p. 227
Allied Fighters	p. 239
Allied Bombers	p. 272
Airmen in the South Pacific	p. 309
Preparation for War	p. 310
Morale	p. 341
Fire in the Sky: Air Battle in the South Pacific	p. 407
Deadly Geometry: Fighter Warfare in the South Pacific	p. 445
Fighter Formations and Missions	p. 446
Maneuver and Melee	p. 465
Making History: Bombers in the South Pacific	p. 531
A Confused Start	p. 540
Allied Bombers Take Control	p. 562
Helping the Ground-Pounders	p. 598
The Destruction of Japanese Airpower	p. 621
Conclusion	p. 657
Chronology of Events	p. 677
Author's Note on Technical Information Including Table of Major Warplanes in the South Pacific Theater	p. 679
Notes	p. 685
Sources and Bibliography	p. 695
Index	p. 703
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