Roger Letourneau

In this study I think that the authors do a very good job of providing an understanding of what is one of the harder type of military campaigns to give the flavor of, that is the extended air operation, which can rapidly bog down into a grab bag of of missions flown and aircraft shot down with very little narrative structure. What helps in this is that there was a distinct objective at stake (the escape of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal), so it's possible to look at how the exertions of the two forces played out in regards to this. In particular, one is given a good sense of the state of play of the rival air machines, as this was a point in the war where the fight was relatively equal, allowing the Japanese to pull off their exercise in operational sleight-of-hand.… (plus d'informations)