A Highly Illustrated Study Of The Last Great Campaign In The Pacific Theater Of World War Ii: The Us Navy's And Royal Navy's Air, Surface, And Submarine Attacks On The Japanese Home Islands. 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.

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Campaign (Osprey Publishing), Oxford, 2020

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A highly illustrated study of the last great campaign in the Pacific Theatre in World War II: the US Navy and Royal Navy's air, surface, and submarine attacks on the Japanese Home Islands.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. 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.

Cover 1
Contents 3
Origins Of The Campaign 5
Prelude: November–December 1944 5
The Legacy Of War Plan Orange 6
Operation Kita: Abandoning A Collapsing Empire, January–February 1945 8
Chronology 10
Opposing Commanders 12
Allied 12
Japanese 13
Opposing Forces 15
Allied 15
Japanese 16
Orders Of Battle, February 1945 18
Opposing Plans 21
United States 21
Japanese 22
The Campaign 24
First Raids On Tokyo, February 16–25 24
Home Islands Strikes In Support Of Operation Iceberg, March 18–June 8 35
Operation Starvation 45
Naval Plans For Operation Olympic 47
Air And Surface Bombardments Of Northern Japan, July 10–16 53
Return To Tokyo, July 17–18 62
Operation Barney And Uss Barb’s Exploits 63
Strikes On The Inland Sea, July 24–28 67
Endgame, July 29–August 15 76
Aftermath 88
The Battlefields Today 93
Select Bibliography 93
List Of Abbreviations 94
Index 95
Imprint 97

2020-09-27