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9781904010951
Air War for Burma follows the hard-fought campaigns through to the end of the war in August 1945. Here the activities of the RAF and USAAF during the desperate fighting of 1942-44, resulting ultimately in victories at Imphal and Kohima, are fully recounted. Air War for Burma describes the operations during the First and Second Arakan Campaigns; support for the Chindits in their long-range penetrations deep into enemy-held territory; the savage sieges of Imphal and Kohima; and the final victorious advance across the plains of Central Burma to Mandalay and Rangoon. Detailed also are the activities over the Indian Ocean and the East Indies of the Royal Navy's aircraft carriers and the aircrew of the Fleet Air Arm.Shores, Christopher is the author of 'Air War For Burma The Allied Air Forces Fight Back In South-east Asia 1942-1945', published 2005 under ISBN 9781904010951 and ISBN 1904010954.
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