Rocky Boyer's war : an unvarnished history of the air blitz that won the war in the Southwest Pacific /
Boyer, Allen D.,
Rocky Boyer's war : an unvarnished history of the air blitz that won the war in the Southwest Pacific / Unvarnished history of the air blitz that won the war in the Southwest Pacific Allen D. Boyer. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
1682470970 9781682470978 (electronic bk.) (hardcover ; alk. paper)
C2C5820B-733D-406A-AD0D-F9F5D367766E OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2017018065
Boyer, Roscoe A.--Diaries.
United States. Army Air Forces. Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 71st --Biography.
United States. Army Air Forces. Officers --Biography.
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.--Pacific Area
Flight radio operators--United States--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
Radionavigants (Navigation aérienne)--États-Unis--Biographies.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945--Histoire des unités--États-Unis.
Flight radio operators.
Military operations, Aerial--American.
Regimental histories.
Clinton County (Ind.)--Biography.
Indiana--Clinton County.
Pacific Area.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Diaries.
D790.253 71st
940.54/4973092 B
Rocky Boyer's war : an unvarnished history of the air blitz that won the war in the Southwest Pacific / Unvarnished history of the air blitz that won the war in the Southwest Pacific Allen D. Boyer. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
1682470970 9781682470978 (electronic bk.) (hardcover ; alk. paper)
C2C5820B-733D-406A-AD0D-F9F5D367766E OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2017018065
Boyer, Roscoe A.--Diaries.
United States. Army Air Forces. Tactical Reconnaissance Group, 71st --Biography.
United States. Army Air Forces. Officers --Biography.
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.--Pacific Area
Flight radio operators--United States--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States.
Radionavigants (Navigation aérienne)--États-Unis--Biographies.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945--Histoire des unités--États-Unis.
Flight radio operators.
Military operations, Aerial--American.
Regimental histories.
Clinton County (Ind.)--Biography.
Indiana--Clinton County.
Pacific Area.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Diaries.
D790.253 71st
940.54/4973092 B