This book is the third of a trilogy that chronicles the intensive 44-month Allied aerial and naval campaign to neutralize and isolate the Japanese air and naval base in Rabaul, that was the linchpin of its military power in the South Pacific. This book picks up the campaign in March 1943, when the march up the Solomon island chain from Guadalcanal began. The ragtag joint air command, the "Cactus Air Force," which included Australian and New Zealander units, slowly gained strength and became a formidable air armada that battled some the Japan's best pilots and destroyed Japanese shipping in the region. Rabaul never was liberated, but was neutralized by aircraft until it surrendered at war's end.
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