A new book in my library. (19 Viewers)

[ColFord]

Latest in the series arrived Friday and I am already a couple of chapters into its contents. Same format and style as the previous volumes and links in nicely to their South Pacific Air War series and the more recent New Guinea Eagles (JAAF in PNG) new series first volume. I particularly likes in the introductory chapters of this volume a stocktake of what the force composition of the two opposing sides forces were, units, strengths, aircraft types and locations. And the RNZAF are represented with their Hudsons operating from Guadalcanal and other units in Fiji.

This volume covers a period with a number of key events, new units arriving, old units leaving, new aircraft types arriving, new airfields being developed, with some pivotal happenings in the campaign.

 

[Jadera]

Whups wrong place

 

[SaparotRob]

Whups wrong place

Been there. Done that.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Latest in the series arrived Friday and I am already a couple of chapters into its contents. Same format and style as the previous volumes and links in nicely to their South Pacific Air War series and the more recent New Guinea Eagles (JAAF in PNG) new series first volume. I particularly likes in the introductory chapters of this volume a stocktake of what the force composition of the two opposing sides forces were, units, strengths, aircraft types and locations. And the RNZAF are represented with their Hudsons operating from Guadalcanal and other units in Fiji.

This volume covers a period with a number of key events, new units arriving, old units leaving, new aircraft types arriving, new airfields being developed, with some pivotal happenings in the campaign.

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I'm tempted to purchase New Guinea Eagles also but I fear a degree of overlapping with the South West Pacific Air War series.

Have you read New Guinea Eagles If so, do you think the overlapping is significant?

 

[Viking1066]

I get them both just because there isn't anything else like it available. He covers it quite thoroughly.

 

[Capt. Vick]

I'm tempted to purchase New Guinea Eagles also but I fear a degree of overlapping with the South West Pacific Air War series.

Have you read New Guinea Eagles If so, do you think the overlapping is significant?

Honestly thought they were part of the same series not too long ago.

 

[ColFord]

I'm tempted to purchase New Guinea Eagles also but I fear a degree of overlapping with the South West Pacific Air War series.

Have you read New Guinea Eagles If so, do you think the overlapping is significant?

I have the New Guinea Eagles book and read it. It goes into a greater depth of detail regarding the deployment of the JAAF to PNG, the decisions and politics behind the deployment, operations, personnel, aircraft, and experiences/accounts. Compared to SPAW & SAW, the focus is very much on the JAAF, whereas in the other two series there is the balance between the Allied and Japanese forces and activities.

For example in latest of the Solomons series, the Battle of the Bismark Sea is mentioned (which is covered in greater detail in the relevant SPAW volume), but primarily relating to its impacts on the IJN forces in the area and how it influenced Japanese operations in the entire southern Pacific more broadly and fed into the decision to conduct Operation I-Go. Where there is overlap I would describe the method used between the different series as "light touch", enough information is given to inform the reader, but the greater detail is found in the appropriate other series volume where the action primarily took place. It's a balancing act.

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