Description: FeaturesDimensions: 7 wide x 10 high96 PagesIllustrated throughout with around 60 photos and at least 14 pages of color illustrationsTask Force 38's bold carrier rampage in Formosa Luzon and IndochinaLardasA history of the US Navy's remarkable 1945 South China Sea raid against the Japanese the first time in history that a carrier fleet dared to rampage through coastal waters. As 1945 opened Japan was fighting defensively everywhere. As the Allies drew closer to the Home Islands risks of Japanese air and sea attack on the US Navy carrier force increased. US forces wanted to take the island of Luzon which provided a base for Japanese aircraft from Formosa (Taiwan) and Indochina and from where attacks could easily be devastating for the invasion fleet. US Naval Intelligence also believed Japanese battleships Ise and Hyuga were operating out of Cam Ranh Bay. A fast carrier sweep through the South China Sea was a potential answer with the bonus that it would strike the main nautical highway for cargo from Japan's conquests in Southeast Asia. Task Force 38 would spend the better part of two weeks marauding through the South China Sea during Operation Gratitude a month-long sweep of the area which launched air strikes into harbors in Indochina the Chinese coast and Formosa while targeting shipping in the high-traffic nautical highway. By the time the Task Force exited the South China Sea over 300000 tons of enemy shipping and dozens of Japanese warships had been sunk. With follow-up air strikes against Japanese harbors and airfields in Formosa and the Ryukyu Islands the success of the sweep was unprecedented. Using detailed battlescenes maps bird's eye views and diagrams of air strikes at Luzon this intriguing account of Task Force 38's reign in the South China Sea proved that aircraft carriers could dominate the land-based air power of the fading Japanese. From the Korean War throu
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Features: Scale:, Military Branch:, Conflict: World War II
SKU: MAC25793
MPN: 9781472853110
