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During the first three days of the Japanese assault on American Pacific bases in December of 1941, the 24th Pursuit Group, the only unit of interceptor aircraft in the Philippine Islands, was almost destroyed as an effective force. Yet the group's pilot, doomed from the start by their limited training, an inadequate air warning system, and lack of familiarity with the few flyable pursuit aircraft they had left, fought on against immensely supe...

Conflict in Cuba is not new. Since early in Cuba's colonial history a small elite has used centralized power to rule for what its members viewed as the common good, which often coincided with their own good. Political officials often took advantage of their situation and created monopolies which limited accountability, social mobility, fair play, and economic development -- the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. This work traces this eth...

Ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, "another Pearl Harbor" of even more devastating consequence for American arms occurred in the Philippines, 4, 500 miles to the west. On December 8, 1941, at 12.35 p.m., 196 Japanese Navy bombers and fighters crippled the largest force of B-17 four-engine bombers outside the United States and also decimated their protective P-40 interceptors. The sudden blow allowed the Japanese to rule the skies over...

Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal, the Americans captured the almost completed airfield for their own strategic use. William H. Bartsch draws on correspondence, interviews, diaries, memoirs, and official war records to offer an intensely human narrative of the failed Japanese attempt to re...

William H. Bartsch has pored through personal diaries and memoirs of the participants I the defense of Jacva, cross-checking these primary sources against Japanese aerial combat records and supplementing them with official records and other accounts. HIs thorough and meticulous research yields a narrative that situates the Java pursuit pilots' experiences within the context of the overall strategic situation in the early days of the Pacific th...