
Skip Bombing
James T. Murphy(Author)
Praeger Publishers Inc
Published on 24. May 1993
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-275-94540-4 (ISBN)
Description
Murphy was one of a very small number of volunteer pilots who, with their flight crews, started bombing at low altitudes in B-17 flying fortresses in the Southwest Pacific. The aircraft were flown at a 200-foot altitude and at 250 miles per hour at night. One-thousand pound bombs, equipped with four-to-five second fuses, were dropped from the B-17s. On March 3, 1943, the Japanese made a desperate move to re-supply their forces on New Guinea. Twenty-two cargo, transport, and war ships proceeded toward New Guinea using bad weather for cover. They were found in the Bismarck Sea. The Allied Air Forces--using skip bombing--sank all twenty-two Japanese ships. Murphy was credited with sinking nine Japanese ships during his year of combat, including one in the Bismarck Sea battle. Skip bombing became a tactic that helped the U.S. win the war in the South Pacific.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-275-94540-4 (9780275945404)
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Person
JAMES T. MURPHY retired from the United States Air Force as a Lt. Colonel in 1965. He served with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama from 1965 to 1982. He was deputy manager of the Saturn V Program initially, then Director of Program Development for over ten years and Director of Administration and Program support when he retired.
Content
Prologue Photographs Maps Illustrations Introduction July to September 1942 September to October 1942 October 1942 October to November 1942 November to December 1942 January to March 1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea, March 1943 March to April 1943 April to May 1943 May to June 1943 Index