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Evans Bryn |
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Air battle for Burma : allied pilots' fight for supremacy / / Bryn Evans |
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South Yorkshire, England : , : Pen and Sword Aviation, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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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' -- ; 10. 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. |
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