[PDF] Us Strategic Bombing Survey Allied Campaign Against Rabaul Prepared By The Naval Analysis Division Marshalls Gilberts New Britain Party eBook

Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher :
Page : 1808 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Government publications
ISBN :

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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index.

Author : James H. Hallas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0811771326

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On the morning of December 7, 1941, Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John W. Finn, though suffering multiple wounds, continued to man his machine gun against waves of Japanese aircraft attacking the Kaneohe Bay Naval Station during the infamous Pearl Harbor raid. Just over three years later, as World War II struggled into its final months, a B-29 radioman named Red Erwin lingered near death after suffering horrific burns to save his air crew in the skies off Japan. They were the first and last of thirty U.S. Navy, Army, and Marine Corps aviation personnel awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions against the Japanese during World War II. They included pilots and crewmen manning fighters and dive bombers and flying boats and bombers. One was a general. Another was a sergeant. Some shot down large numbers of enemy aircraft in aerial combat. Others sacrificed themselves for their friends or risked everything for complete strangers. Who were these now largely forgotten men? Where did they come from? What inspired them to rise “above and beyond”? What, if anything, made them different? Virtually all had one thing in common: they always wanted to fly. They came from a generation that revered the aces of World War I, like Eddie Rickenbacker, the civilian flyer Charles Lindbergh, and the lost aviator Amelia Earhart—and then they blazed their own trail during World War II.

Author : Monica Foster
Publisher : OCEANS ENTERPRISES
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780646173948

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Exploration of sunken Japanese ships and other materiel from World War II in the Rabaul region of Papua New Guinea.

Author : R. Wally Johnson
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1922144231

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Volcanic eruptions have killed thousands of people and damaged homes, villages, infrastructure, subsistence gardens, and hunting and fishing grounds in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The central business district of a town was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the case of Rabaul in 1994. Volcanic disasters litter not only the recent written history of both countries—particularly Papua New Guinea—but are recorded in traditional stories as well. Furthermore, evidence for disastrous volcanic eruptions many times greater than any witnessed in historical times is to be found in the geological record. Volcanic risk is greater today than at any time previously because of larger, mainly sedentary populations on or near volcanoes in both countries. An attempt is made in this book to review what is known about past volcanic eruptions and disasters with a view to determining how best volcanic risk can be reduced today in this tectonically complex and volcanically threatening region.