Rabaul 1943-44 Reducing Japan's Great Island Fortress Track Code_Code 100 By October 1943

By October 1943

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Rabaul 1943-44 Reducing Japan's Great Island Fortress Track Code_Code 100 By October 1943In 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul was a fortress standing in the Allies\' path to Tokyo. It was impossible to seize Rabaul, or starve the 100,000 strong garrison out. Instead the US began an innovative, hard fought two year air campaign to draw its teeth, and allow them to bypass the island completely. The struggle decided more than the fate of Rabaul. If successful, the Allies would demonstrate a new form of warfare,