Jumat, 25 Agustus 2017

Nango’s Last Stand

An experienced Japanese ace lost his life in a wild aerial battle over Wewak. By the beginning of 1944, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force was in dire straits in New Guinea, reduced to defending its battered air bases along the island’s north- ern littoral. At a time when it was being said “No one …

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