Truk 1944-45: The Destruction of Japan's Central Pacific Bastion

by Mark Lardas

A fully illustrated history of how the US Navy destroyed Truk, the greatest Japanese naval and air base in the Pacific, with Operation Hailstone, and how B-29 units and the carriers of the British Pacific Fleet kept the base suppressed until VJ-Day.

In early 1944, the island base of Truk was a Japanese Pearl Harbor; a powerful naval and air base that needed to be neutralized before the Allies could fight...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472845854
• ISBN13: 9781472845856
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.2" x 9.6"