Rocky Boyer's War
Subtitle: An Unvarnished History of the Air Blitz That Won the War in the Southwest Pacific
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781682470961
Subjects: United states, army air forces; World war, 1939-1945, pacific area; World war, 1939-1945, regimental histories
Description: "Based in part on an unauthorized diary kept by the author's father, 1st Lt. Roscoe "Rocky" Boyer, this narrative history offers the reader an account of Allied air commander Gen. George Kenney's "air blitz" offensive in the Southwest Pacific. At airfields on the front line, Rocky kept the radios working for the 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Group, a fighter-bomber unit. The author uses Rocky's story as a jumping-off point from which to understand the daily life, pranks, mishaps, and casualties, of the men who in 1944 fought their way over the two thousand miles from New Guinea to the Philippines."--Provided by publisher.