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by William H. Bartsch; Foreword by Anthony Weller


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  • Title Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942
  • Author William H. Bartsch; Foreword by Anthony Weller
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Pages 506
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas, U.S.A.
  • Date 2010-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9781603441766 / 160344176X
  • Weight 2.24 lbs (1.02 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.7 in (23.37 x 15.75 x 4.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Military
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History, World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009051151
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.542

About the author

WILLIAM H. BARTSCH is the author of two previous books published by Texas A&M University Press: Doomed at the Start: American Pursuit Pilots in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (1992); and the award-winning December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor (2003). Bartsch, a former United Nations development economist and independent consultant now exclusively researching and writing on the Pacific War, lives in Reston, Virginia.
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College Station, TX.: Texas A&M University Press, 2010 Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX. 2010. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Number 131: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; scant shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light bump to textblock fore edge corner at bottom. DJ: Near Fine; light bumping to tail. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 506 pp 8vo. In December 1941, the War Department sent two transports and a freighter carrying 103 P-40 aircraft and their pilots to the Philippines but were diverted to Australia, with new orders to proceed to the Philippines from Australia through the Dutch East Indies. Soon the refueling stops in the East Indies fell to the Japanese forces and the pilots would now fly to Java to participate in the Allied defense of that Japanese objective. Unfortunately, almost all of the other pilots were recent graduates of… Read More
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College Station, Texas, U.S.A.: Texas A & M University Press, 2010. 506pp/illus. Contents, Index, Black and white photographs. In December 1941, the War Department sent two transports and a freighter carrying 103 P-40 fighters and their pilots to the Philipines to bolster Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s Far East Air Force. They were then diverted to Australia, with new orders to ferry the P-40s to the Philippines from Australia through the Dutch East Indies. But on the same day as the second transport reached its destination on January 12, 1942, the first of the key refueling stops in the East Indies fell to rapidly advancing Japanese forces, resulting in a break in their ferry route and another change in their orders. This time the pilots would fly their aircraft to Java to participate in the desperate Allied defense of that ultimate Japanese objective. Except for the pilots from the Philippines, almost all of the other pilots eventually assigned to the five provisional pursuit squadrons ordered… Read More
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