Seal Team Seven 08: Pacific Siege
Seal Team Seven 08: Pacific Siege

Author: Keith Douglass

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1999-06-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1101560800

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Following World War II, Japan returns one of its northern islands to Russia; now Japanese General Nishikawa decides he wants it back. After he and his troops capture the Russian military post on the island and threaten to kill the Russian garrison, Japan is left helpless. They don’t want to open fire on their own troops, but they have to do something before Russia retaliates. And Russia is not happy. Lieutenant Murdock and his SEALs are called in to restore justice. But between freeing Russian hostages, keeping the General from going ballistic, and making sure not to step on the wrong toes, the SEALs find themselves stuck waist-deep in hell—and high water.

Fortress Rabaul
Fortress Rabaul

Author: Bruce Gamble

Publisher: Zenith Press

Published: 2013-09-09

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 0760345597

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For most of World War II, the mention of Japan's island stronghold sent shudders through thousands of Allied airmen. Some called it “Fortress Rabaul,” an apt name for the headquarters of the Imperial Japanese forces in the Southwest Pacific. Author Bruce Gamble chronicles Rabaul’s crucial role in Japanese operations in the Southwest Pacific. Millions of square feet of housing and storage facilities supported a hundred thousand soldiers and naval personnel. Simpson Harbor and the airfields were the focus of hundreds of missions by American air forces. Winner of the "Gold Medal" (Military Writers Society of America) and "Editor's Choice Award" (Stone & Stone Second World War Books), Fortress Rabaul details a critical and, until now, little understood chapter in the history of World War II.

The Naval Siege of Japan 1945
The Naval Siege of Japan 1945

Author: Brian Lane Herder

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-04-30

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1472840348

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The final months of Allied naval bombardments on the Home Islands during World War II have, for whatever reason, frequently been overlooked by historians. Yet the Allies' final naval campaign against Japan involved the largest and arguably most successful wartime naval fleet ever assembled, and was the climax to the greatest naval war in history. Though suffering grievous losses during its early attacks, by July 1945 the United States Third Fleet wielded 1,400 aircraft just off the coast of Japan, while Task Force 37, the British Pacific Fleet's carrier and battleship striking force, was the most powerful single formation ever assembled by the Royal Navy. In the final months of the war the Third Fleet's 20 American and British aircraft carriers would hurl over 10,000 aerial sorties against the Home Islands, whilst another ten Allied battleships would inflict numerous morale-destroying shellings on Japanese coastal cities. In this illustrated study, historian Brian Lane Herder draws on primary sources and expert analysis to chronicle the full story of the Allies' Navy Siege of Japan from February 1945 to the very last days of World War II.