Kangaroo Squadron. American Courage In The Darkest Days Of World War II

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: Reprint

Description: 400 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The dramatic untold story of the first US Army Air Force unit to attack the Japanese after Pearl HarborIn early 1942, while most of the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single squadron advanced to the far side of the world to face Americas new enemy.Based in Australia with poor supplies and dubbed the Kangaroo Squadron, the pilots and crew faced tropical diseases while confronting numerically superior Japanese forces. Yet the squadron proved remarkably resilient and successful, conducting long-range bombing raids, armed reconnaissance missions, and rescuing General MacArthur and his staff from the Philippines.Before now, the story of their courage and determination in the face of overwhelming odds has largely been untold. Using eyewitness accounts based on personal diaries, letters, new interviews, and memoirs as well as Japanese sources historian Bruce Gamble brings to vivid life this dramatic true story.But the Kangaroo Squadrons story doesnt end in World War II-the very first B-17 downed in combat has recently been recovered from jungle swamps. The intertwined stories of the Kangaroo Squadron and the "Swamp Ghost" are filled with thrilling accounts of aerial combat, an epic jungle survival story, and the powerful mystique of an abandoned bomber that compelled men to possess it at any cost.

ISBN: 9780306845253