This is the fifth, and final, part of my series of campaigns covering fighter operations of the IJN Air Force over New Guinea, the Solomons and New Britain from 1942 to early 1944.
It picks up where the IJN Solomons campaign ended, in September 1943, and runs until February 1944, when the Japanese withdrew their planes from Rabaul, which had by this time been surrounded by the Allies and cut off from being supplied.
You will fly A6M3 and later A6M5 Zeros in the last attempts to defend southern Bougainville against American bomber raids, then withdraw to Rabaul and continue fighting against Allied air raids there. In between you have to escort bombers attempting to counter Allied landings in the Treasury Islands, at Empress Augusta Bay and finally on New Britain, on the doorstep to Rabaul.
Submitted by skylane
It picks up where the IJN Solomons campaign ended, in September 1943, and runs until February 1944, when the Japanese withdrew their planes from Rabaul, which had by this time been surrounded by the Allies and cut off from being supplied.
You will fly A6M3 and later A6M5 Zeros in the last attempts to defend southern Bougainville against American bomber raids, then withdraw to Rabaul and continue fighting against Allied air raids there. In between you have to escort bombers attempting to counter Allied landings in the Treasury Islands, at Empress Augusta Bay and finally on New Britain, on the doorstep to Rabaul.
Submitted by skylane
