From the author of "Battle of Long Tan", this new work is an account of the largest and only unit level battle involving Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War. For 26 days in May and June 1968, units of the 1st Australian Task Force fought a series of actions around Fire Support Bases Coral and Balmoral. They moved into an area dominated by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong and were forced to adopt a very different style of warfare. From a war of patrolling and ambushing, the Australian forces were confronted with an enemy who actively came looking for a fight. In this account the author includes individual stories of bravery, compassion and humour: the officer who stood in full view of the enemy to direct machine-gun fire and the typical "Digger" who amidst the chaos listened to the race results on Radio Australia. Lex McAulay has spent 22 years in the army, including three tours of Vietnam.

The battle of Coral

History

McAulay, Lex

Asia

Hutchinson, Australia

Contact: Australians in Vietnam

Provides an account of the pivotal battle fought in the South West Pacific in which the Royal Australian Air Force and the United States 5th Air Force joined together to overcome the Japanese

Battle of the Bismarck Sea

Americas

St Martins Pr

Into the Dragon's Jaws/the Fifth Air Force over Rabaul, 1943

Military

Champlin Fighter Museum Pr

Battle of Long Tan

John Curley & Assoc

The successful use of strategic U.S. air power in the South West Pacific during World War II enabled Gen. Douglas MacArthur to advance from Australia to Japan. This book examines the inexorable thrust of the general's U.S. Army's 5th Air Force, under air commander Gen. George C. Kenney, in the hard-hitting campaigns against the Japanese Army Air Force bases in New Guinea. During 1943 and 1944, the 5th Air Force destroyed its Japanese opponent three times, eventually opening the way for the advance--ahead of schedule--of MacArthur's Allied forces through New Guinea to the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies.
 No other book describes these crucial operations in such breadth or detail. From the national level to the individual fighter pilot's level, the author chronicles what happened. Of particular merit is Lex McAuley's portrayal of the Japanese side of the conflict, including an inside look at the problems of the Japanese Air Force high command. The author explains the varying degrees of understanding the concept of air power exhibited by both Japanese and U.S. commanders, including not only the type of aircraft produced by each country but the ways in which the aircraft were used. Air combat missions come vividly and dramatically to life through the use of oral history interviews that lend an authoritative air to the book.

MacArthur's Eagles: The U.S. Air War over New Guinea, 1943-1944

Naval_Institute_Press

The Battle of the Bismarck Sea 3 March 1943 - 30 Minutes That Changed the Balance of Power in New Guines

Banner Books

The Battle of the Bismarck Sea 3 March 1943: 30 Minutes that changed the balance of power in the South West Pacific

Independently published

A Clean Sweep: The destruction of the Japanese Army Air Force fighter arm, New Guinea 1943-44

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