Operation KE
Subtitle: the Cactus Air Force and the Japanese withdrawal from Guadalcanal
By: Roger Letourneau and Dennis Letourneau
Contributors: Letourneau, Dennis
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Annapolis, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781591144465; 9781612511795
Subjects: Operation KE, 1943; United States; Guadalcanal, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942-1943; Allied Air Forces in the Solomons; United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 13th; Aerial operations; World War, 1939-1945
Description: Explores the air combat that attended the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal in early 1943. The traditional view holds that the Japanese got away with the initiative largely because the Americans let them; the US Pacific high command felt it was not worth the effort to try and stop them. Letourneau contends that the Japanese developed a reasonably sound strategy that exploited those methods and tools of war then in use in the South Pacific; to achieve success, they maximized their own strengths while taking advantage of their adversary's limitations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.