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Setting the Rising Sun focuses on the U.S. Third Fleet's carrier-based fighters during the last months of World War II. Kevin Mahoney recounts this vital period of the Pacific War, drawing on both American and Japanese perspectives to reconstruct intense combat missions and place them in the context of a war that was hurtling toward its conclusion.

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Setting the Rising Sun focuses on the U.S. Third Fleet's carrier-based fighters during the last months of World War II. Kevin Mahoney recounts this vital period of the Pacific War, drawing on both American and Japanese perspectives to reconstruct intense combat missions and place them in the context of a war that was hurtling toward its conclusion.
Autorenporträt
Kevin A. Mahoney, who holds degrees from George Washington University and Georgetown, is an author and researcher with more than twenty years of experience in the history and museum fields. He is author of Bombing Europe (Zenith Press, 2015), Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis (Scarecrow Press, 2013), and Formidable Enemies (Presidio, 2001). He has written for Military Heritage, Military Illustrated, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies.