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Air War Against Japan, 1943-1945 and the Japanese Thrust
Air War Against Japan, 1943-1945 and the Japanese Thrust
By George Odgers and Lionel Wigmore
Australian War Memorial, Angus and Australian War Memorial, Angus, 1957, 533715 pp

Two further volumes in the official Australian history of the Second World War. Odgers' study starts with the first R.A.A.F. offensive against Japan in 1943 and carries through to the end of hostilities. Wigmore's volume is largely devoted to the disastrous fighting in Malaya and Southeast Asia in the first weeks after the Japanese attack.

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