ALLIED AIR TRANSPORT OPERATIONS
SOUTH WEST PACIFIC AREA IN WWII
Volume Four:-    1944 - Supporting the Allied advances
by Robert H. Kelly

Robert H. Kelly received a posthumous Order of Australia for his research and the writing of this series.

The series is unique in that no comprehensive history of the air transport effort in the Pacific in WWII has ever been written before – over 1500 planes and thousands of personnel were involved in transporting supplies and troops within the South West Pacific Area (SWPA).

In this book Robert H. Kelly covers the movement of air transport following the Allied advances. The year 1944 was extremely concentrated with a long string of Allied operations throughout. In the first six months of 1944 Allied forces advanced over 900 air miles from Finschhafen, New Guinea, to Biak in Dutch New Guinea. In the next six months to January 1945 they progressed about another 1,400 miles to Lingayen, north of Manila in Luzon. Air transport enabled rapid service to the advancing fighter and bomb groups and ground forces.

This is an authoritative reference book and is an essential reference for any military historian. It also will serve as a source of valuable information for others such as students, aviation enthusiasts and genealogists.

Before this series of Volumes there was very little information on the troop carrier units and certainly not in this amount of detail and information. These books also serve to inform people that behind the fighter and bomber units there were brave men contributing to the front line of war.

The author compiled his books from numerous sources including original records of the RAAF and USAAF.

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This page first produced 16 January 2015

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