Allied Pilots' Fight for Supremacy Evans, Bryn creator author. text ao 2022 monographic eng

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xv, 251 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Machine generated contents note: 1. Japanese Air Power Strikes Across Half the Globe -- 2. The Japanese Storm Hits Rangoon -- 3. The Debacle at Singapore -- Welcome to 'Synon-Lo!' -- 4. An Unstoppable Tsunami -- Across Burma's Land and Sky -- 5. Retreat from Rangoon, Further Losses at Sea, and Colombo Bombed -- 6. Trincomalee Bombed -- More Allied Ships Sunk and the Japanese Army Drives into Northern Burma -- 7. Hanging On in India -- In the Heat, the Monsoon and Against the `Rising Sun' -- 8. On the Bengal Coast -- Confronting the IJAAF -- 9. Chasing Dinah -- High Speed Interception at `Angels 30' -- 1 0. Spitfire Dawn -- 11. Operation HA-GO -- Arakan's Battle of the `Admin Box' -- 12. Operation U-GO! -- The Japanese Invasion of India -- 13. The Critical Battles for Kohima and Imphal -- Air Power and the Monsoon Offer Salvation -- 14. Winning the Air battle -- Breaking the Ground Siege at Imphal -- 15. War in the Shadows -- With Air Support -- 16. Into 1945 -- Three Allied Ground Offensives and a Fourth in the Sky -- 17. Race for Rangoon -- With a Hammer, an Anvil and a Steel Cloak of Air Power -- 18. Mandalay to Rangoon, by Land, Sea and Air. adult Bryn Evans Includes bibliographical references and index. World War 1939-1945 Aerial operations, British 940.544941022 9781399074865 PPAK 221213 eng