- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Crecy Publishing; 2nd Revised edition edition (31 Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0947554858
- ISBN-13: 978-0947554859
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 1.3 cm
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Formed in 1944 the British Pacific Fleet was to fight alongside the Americans and so was given an American codename - Task Force 57. But the Pacific theatre was unlike anything the British had experienced before. Surface action was rare and major engagements were fought at ranges of 200 miles. The veterans of the Atlantic, Mediterranean and North Sea had to start again and faced a new deadly enemy from the air - the Kamikaze. Although overshadowed in numbers by the vast American task forces, Task Force 57 made a decisive contribution to victory in the Far East. Adefinitive account of this `forgotten fleet'.
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This review is from: Task Force 57: British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45 (Crécy soft cover) (Paperback)
This is a good overview of a contribution to the war effort too little known and too little understood. It sets the strategic scene well. But it is perhaps too deferential to official sources. For anyone who wants to understand the experience of being in TF57, or for an alternative view of Vian, or for a useful corrective to the idea that the FAA Seafires were out of place alongside US carrier planes, then read Mike Crosley's wonderful book, They Gave Me a Seafire - authoritative, hilarious, tragic and thought-provoking.
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