South Pacific Air War Volume 5: Crisis in Papua, September - December 1942

Volume Five of this series chronicles aerial warfare in the New Guinea theatre in If the critical period between September and December 1942. It can be read alone or as a continuation of the previous four volumes which span the first nine months of the Pacific War. By early September the strategic picture in the theatre had changed markedly within just six weeks. From their new Buna beachhead the Japanese Army commenced a Papuan mountain campaign which threatened the Allied bastion of Port ...