Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal …
Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal …
In the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. When they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal in July 1942, the Americans captured the almost completed airfield …
Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal …
In December 1941, War Department sent two transports and freighter carrying 103 P-40 fighters and pilots to Philipines to help Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Far East Air Force. They were diverted to Australia, with new orders to ferry P-40s to Philippines from Australia through Dutch…