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Desperate Gambit: Project X and the American Aerial Defense of Java, 1941-1942

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In the dark days of World War II, just after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces were moving almost at will across Southeast Asia and the Pacific. With his troops besieged in the Philippines and his bomber and fighter squadrons nearly reduced to impotence, General MacArthur pressured the US War Department to provide urgent help, particularly for replacements for the B-17 bombers decimated in the December 8 attack on Clark Field. President Roosevelt committed to send a large force of heavy bombers and their crews to the Philippines, a reinforcement plan code named "Project X."

During the following weeks, the air force combat command made frenzied efforts to access the sixty-five Boeing B-17Es and fifteen Consolidated LB-30 heavy bombers that were to comprise the Project X force. The novice crews that were cobbled together would be required to fly their bombers two-thirds of the way around the globe, from MacDill Field in Florida to their new destination on the island of Java, where they were immediately thrown into combat. Project X, as the first test of the doctrine of strategic bombing, was an assignment unprecedented in US military history, though it was ultimately doomed to failure.

Continuing his masterful series of books on the air war in the Pacific Theater, military historian William H. Bartsch takes readers inside the headquarters planning rooms, the front-line command posts, and the cockpits of the aircraft to chronicle another chapter in the early days of the Allied effort to meet the Japanese challenge. Desperate Gambit: Project X and the American Aerial Defense of Java, 1941–1942 will be eagerly received by both general readers and professional historians interested in the evolution of aerial combat and strategic bombing of World War II in the Pacific.



About the Author :

William H. Bartsch is the author of Doomed at the Start: American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941–1942; December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor; Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941–1942; and Victory Fever on Guadalcanal: Japan's First Land Defeat of World War II.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781648432521
  • Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Texas A & M University Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1648432522
  • Publisher Date: 28 Apr 2026
  • Binding: Other book format
  • Sub Title: Project X and the American Aerial Defense of Java, 1941-1942


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