ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY 1942-1945 Volume 2

AUSTRALIA IN THE WAR OF 1939-1945

von G. Herman Gill

820 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

¿ Contents, Illustrations, Maps, Sketch Maps, Preface, and Chronology (pages i - xviii)¿ Chapter 1 - Shaping Japan's Perimeter (pages 1 - 24)¿ Chapter 2 - Japan's First Check - Coral Sea (pages 25 - 57)¿ Chapter 3 - Australia's Coast Raided - Her Flanks Strengthened (pages 58 - 99)¿ Chapter 4 - Australia - June 1942 (pages 100 - 113)¿ Chapter 5 - Guadalcanal - Pacific Hinge-pin (pages 114 - 157)¿ Chapter 6 - Sparring for the North (pages 158 - 183)¿ Chapter 7 - On Australia's Ocean Communications (pages 184 - 210)¿ Chapter 8 - South-West Pacific - Prelude to Flood Tide (pages 211 - 249)¿ Chapter 9 - The Supply Lines Battle (pages 250 - 293)¿ Chapter 10 - Indian Ocean - Mediterranean Interlude (pages 294 - 316)¿ Chapter 11 - The Mission of Krait (pages 317 - 325)¿ Chapter 12 - Allied Offensives Gather Momentum (pages 326 - 361)¿ Chapter 13 - Pacific Drive - Indian Ocean Interlude (pages 362 - 409)¿ Chapter 14 - The Assault Armadas Strike (pages 410 - 450)¿ Chapter 15 - Strategy for Victory (pages 451 - 477)¿ Chapter 16 - Preface to the Philippines (pages 478 - 499)¿ Chapter 17 - Leyte (pages 500 - 540)¿ Chapter 18 - Operation Rimau (pages 541 - 546)¿ Chapter 19 - Submarine's Swansong (pages 547 - 557)¿ Chapter 20 - The RAN in Burma (pages 558 - 574)¿ Chapter 21 - Lingayen Gulf (pages 575 - 593)¿ Chapter 22 - The British Pacific Fleet Joins In (pages 594 - 615)¿ Chapter 23 - Australians at Tarakan (pages 616 - 624)¿ Chapter 24 - "Mopping-up" New Guinea and the Solomons (pages 625 - 635)¿ Chapter 25 - RAN Survey Key to Brunei (pages 636 - 645)¿ Chapter 26 - Australia's Largest Amphibious Attack - Balikpapan (pages 646 - 658)¿ Chapter 27 - Final Milestones to Japan's Surrender (pages 659 - 675)¿ Chapter 28 - Surrender - and Aftermath (pages 676 - 701)¿ Chapter 29 - Epilogue (pages 702 - 705)¿ Appendix 1 - The Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (pages 706 - 707)¿ Appendix 2 - The Minesweepers (pages 708 - 709)¿ Appendix 3 - Peak Strengths - Ships and Personnel and Casualties (pages 710 - 713)¿ Appendix 4 - The RANVR on Mine Disposal (pages 714 - 717)¿ Appendix 5 - Abbreviations (pages 718 - 720)¿ Index (pages 721 - 753)

• Reihe: No Series Linked
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Militärgeschichte
• ISBN: 9781474535847
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.04.2022
• Größe: 254 x 178 mm
• Verlag: Naval & Military Press