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Operation Ro-Go 1943 Mr Michael John Claringbould

Operation Ro-Go 1943 By Mr Michael John Claringbould

Operation Ro-Go 1943 by Mr Michael John Claringbould


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Operation Ro-Go 1943: Japanese air power tackles the Bougainville landings by Mr Michael John Claringbould

A compelling account of the failure of Imperial Japan's Operation Ro-Go, intended to take the offensive in the Solomons theater of the Pacific War, but which became Japan's first line of defense against the Allies' Rabaul raids and Bougainville landings. By the midpoint of World War II in the Pacific, Japan was on the defensive. At the end of 1943, after a year of tumultuous air combat around Rabaul and the Solomons, 173 Japanese aircraft were sent to Rabaul. The plan was for them to participate in Ro-Go Sakusen (known as Operation Ro, Ro-Go, or B) to strike Allied air power and shipping in the Solomons and to slow the American advance by severing Allied supply chains. However, instead of challenging Allied air and sea power on their own terms, the operation became unexpectedly embroiled in defensive combat and counterattacks, first to defend Rabaul from Allied air raids, and then to challenge the Allied landings at Bougainville. In one fell swoop, Operation Ro-Go was turned on its head, and transformed into a defensive battle for the Japanese. In this book, the first in English to focus on Operation Ro-Go, Michael John Claringbould uses rare Japanese primary source material to explain how the Japanese planned and fought the campaign, and corrects enduring myths often found in books that rely only on Western sources. He traces the unexpected and tremendous pressures placed on the operation's units at Rabaul as the Japanese dealt with massive, surprise raids from Fifth Air Force bombers, and later US Navy carrier aircraft, concluding with the strategic upset of the Bougainville landings. Packed with previously unpublished photos, spectacular original illustrations, 3D recreations of specific missions, maps and explanatory diagrams, this study tells the previously untold but significant story of Japan's air war in the Solomons.

About Mr Michael John Claringbould

Michael John Claringbould was raised in Papua New Guinea, where he became fascinated by the Pacific air war. An extensive career in the Australian Foreign Service saw him complete six postings within Asia and the Pacific. He is author of numerous books concerning the USAAF Fifth Air Force and Japanese Pacific air power. Appointed an executive member of Pacific Air War History Associates in 2018, Michael is a licensed pilot and also holds an Intermediate paraglider rating. He lives in Australia. Jim Laurier is a native of New England and lives in New Hampshire. He attended Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, from 1974-78, and since graduating with Honours, he has been working professionally in the field of Fine Art and Illustration. He has been commissioned to paint for the US Air Force and has aviation paintings on permanent display at the Pentagon.

Table of Contents

(subject to confirmation) INTRODUCTION CHRONOLOGY ATTACKER'S CAPABILITIES - Airfields - Radar - Torpedoes - Floatplanes - Zero-Sen - Judy - Val DEFENDER'S CAPABILITIES - Logistics and materiel - Strategy - Radar - Airpower CAMPAIGN OBJECTIVES THE CAMPAIGN - Defending Torokina - The carrier forces strike - 2 November - The Fifth Air Force strikes - 2 November - First Rabaul attack - 5 November - Japanese resistance - RAAF night attack - 5 November - Notomi lost - 8 November - The Beaufort Push - 8-9 November - The 11 November Rabaul strike - Target Rabaul - again - The Bettys' attack AFTERMATH BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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NGR9781472855572
9781472855572
1472855574
Operation Ro-Go 1943: Japanese air power tackles the Bougainville landings by Mr Michael John Claringbould
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20231123
96
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