Kangaroo Squadron: American Courage in the Darkest Days of World War II

by Bruce Gamble

Book Overview

In early 1942, while the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single U.S. Army squadron advanced to the far side of the world to face America's new enemy.

Based in Australia with inadequate supplies and no ground support, the squadron's pilots and combat crew endured tropical diseases while confronting numerically superior Japanese forces. Yet the outfit, dubbed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306903121
• ISBN13: 9780306903120
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"