By 1945, General MacArthuras forces had advanced from Papua to the Philippines and to Borneo. The vast majority of the troops, supplies, and equipment for this campaign were transported by sea, and MacArthuras success was based on 22 amphibious assaults. Soldiers and Marines did the ground fighting and MacArthuras air forces eventually ruled the skies, but it was the ships of the United States and Australian navies that delivered them to the battlefronts and supported them. This book reveals facts of the Royal Australian Navyas crucial role in World War II.As the international situation deteriorated towards war in the late 1930s, the British Admiralty trade division commenced the ... This problem had been partially solved by the widespread adoption in 1930 of an international code of signals (firstanbsp;...
Title | : | Royal Australian Navy & MacArthur |
Author | : | Ian Pfennigwerth |
Publisher | : | Rosenberg Publishing - 2009 |
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