Table of Contents

A Note from the Publisher
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Maps
List of American and Japanese Aircraft
Japanese Air Force Organizations
Frequently Used Acronyms
Chapter 1. The Japanese Occupation
Chapter 2. SOPAC: Bases and Logistics
Chapter 3. SOPAC's Air and Naval Offensive
Chapter 4. The Japanese Air Counter-Offensives
Chapter 5. Plans and Preparations
Chapter 6. The Landings
Chapter 7. The First Battle for Munda
Chapter 8. Battles in the Dragons Peninsula
Chapter 9. Battles with the Tokyo Express
Chapter 10. The Second Battle of Munda
Chapter 11. The Vella Lavella Occupation
Chapter 12. The "Clean Up" in New Georgia
Chapter 13. The Japanese Evacuation
Chapter 14. The Bomber Offensive against Buin
Epilogue. TOENAILS Concluded
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Ronnie Day (1939–2014) was Professor in the Department of History at East Tennessee State University. He is editor of South Pacific Diary, 1942–1943.

Reviews

"A detailed, up-to-date, integrated air-land-sea history of the middle Solomons campaign from both the American and Japanese perspectives." -Vincent P. O'Hara, author of In Passage Perilous