Rocky Boyers War: An Unvarnished History of the Air Blitz that Won the War in the Southwest Pacific - Allen D. Boyer

Allen D. Boyer

Category: History

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Tags: History, Military, Autobiography & Biographies

In Rocky Boyer s War, Allen Boyer offers a wry, keen-eyed, and occasionally disgruntled counterpoint history of the hard-fought, brilliant campaign that won World War II in the Southwest Pacific. Based in part on an unauthorized diary kept by the authors father, 1st Lt. Roscoe Rocky Boyer, this narrative history offers the reader an account of Allied air commander Gen. George Kenneys air blitz offensive as it was lived both in the cockpit and on the ground.During 1944, as Gen. Douglas MacArthur s forces fought their way from New Guinea to the Philippines, Kenney, discarding pre-war doctrine, planned and ran an air blitz offensive. His 5th Air Force drove forward like a tank army, crash-landing in open country, seizing terrain, bulldozing new airfields, winning air control, and moving forward. At airfields on the front line, Rocky kept the radios working for the 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Group, a fighter-bomber unit., Diaries were forbidden, but Rocky kept one full of casualties, acc