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    P-47D THUNDERBOLT VS KI-43-II HAYABUSA

    Oct 27, 2020 1 minute
    Jon Guttman

    by Michael John Claringbould, Osprey Publishing, 2020, $22.

    In late July 1943, as the Allies went on the counteroffensive in New Guinea, a new fighter unit arrived at Port Moresby to take its place, Australian aviation historian Michael John Claringbould explains how New Guinea’s peculiar geography helped alter the odds.

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