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Author Boyer, Allen D., author.

Title Rocky Boyer's war : an unvarnished history of the air blitz that won the war in the Southwest Pacific / Allen D. Boyer.

Publication Info. Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: a war and a diary -- From Sugar Creek to Salinas -- Shipping out -- An island north of Australia -- The air blitz war -- Port Moresby -- Headquarters -- Palace coup -- First battles -- The new year -- Nadzab -- From minimum altitude -- Quakes and tremors -- Cape Waios -- Summer -- Moving up -- Biak -- Leyte -- Fiasco night: Mindoro -- Home -- Epilogue.
Summary "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.
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Subject Boyer, Roscoe A. -- Diaries.
Boyer, Roscoe A.
Genre/Form Diaries.
Subject United States. Army Air Forces. Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 71st -- Biography.
United States. Army Air Forces. Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 71st.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject United States. Army Air Forces. Officers -- Biography.
United States. Army Air Forces.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area -- Aerial operations, American.
Flight radio operators -- United States -- Biography.
Flight radio operators.
United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
Clinton County (Ind.) -- Biography.
World War (1939-1945)
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Diaries.
Added Title Unvarnished history of the air blitz that won the war in the Southwest Pacific
Other Form: Print version: Boyer, Allen D. Rocky Boyer's war. Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2017] 9781682470961 (DLC) 2017000243
ISBN 1682470970
9781682470978 (electronic book)
9781682470961 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)