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100 D-Days: The Air War Against the Rising Sun
This course, a bookend to the course War in the Skies: The Air War in Europe 1939-45, covers World War II in the Pacific, with a particular focus on the air war. It traces the development of Japan as a modern military power, its early triumphs in Asia and the South Pacific, and how the Allies – particularly the United States – turned the tide, mainly using air power launched from carriers or air bases captured during the “island hopping” campaigns of 1943-45. It concludes with the ultimate immolation of Japan under the weight of American incendiaries and – eventually – two atomic bombs.
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