“The Bismarck Sea may not be mine, but it is no longer his and he crosses it at his peril,” said Douglas MacArthur a year ago. It had begun to be his a few days before when his Fifth Air Force swooped ...
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The low-level air attack that crushed a Japanese convoy in World War II
In March 1943, American bombers faced a problem no doctrine could solve: ships they could not hit. Major Ed Larner and his ...
What You Need to Know: The USS Bismarck Sea was the last U.S. aircraft carrier lost in battle, sunk by a dual Japanese kamikaze attack during the Battle of Iwo... Summary and What You Need to Know: ...
For months, Allied bombers struggled to sink Japanese ships from altitude. In March 1943, low-level attack tactics, modified ...
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