Lawrence Cortesi

This is a hybrid of a history and docudrama. It almost reads like a movie script.

Because it is written with a third person omniscient viewpoint and conversations are quoted that can not reasonably be know along with the lack of footnotes, I am left unable to know with confidence what is documented and what was imaged or reconstructed.
There is a command structure for the units on both side, a Bibliography (22 authors), Record Sources (~40 orders) and primary histories unit(3) and personal(3). This inspires confidence in its historical content and accuracy that the lack off footnotes or cites and questionable quoted conversations undermines that confidence.

I found the writing informative, detailed and involving. It covered Innovations in weapons and tactics that I had not read about elsewhere.

The author details Allied Air operations July 1942 to September 22 1942 out of New Guinea, leading to local Allied air control and destruction of the majority of Japanese airplanes in the area. The Guadalcanal Campaign was fought between August 7, 1942, and February 9, 1943,Imperial Japanese airplane losses in the operations describe, impacted Japanese air power in the latter part of Guadalcanal effort by diverting replacements and reinforcement's.… (més)