In March 1943, Allied air forces meticulously planned and coordinated a strategic assault in the South West Pacific. Their ...

“The Bismarck Sea may not be mine, but it is no longer his and he crosses it at his peril,” said Douglas MacArthur a year ago. It had begun to be his a few days before when his Fifth Air Force swooped ...

The Battle of the Bismarck Sea marked the moment Japan lost its last real chance to control New Guinea. Allied aircraft destroyed a Japanese convoy attempting to reinforce the front, wiping out troops ...

The Japanese gambled on a desperate attempt to reinforce their troops in New Guinea, but they hadn’t counted on the Allied response In February 1943 they began preparations for another bold attempt to ...

The long-standing controversy of sea power v. air power was settled once and for all by the Hood-Bismarck affair and by the battle for Crete. The answer was not that air power had proved indisputably ...