Bibliograph

Pacific payback, the carrier aviators who avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway, Stephen L. Moore

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Label

Pacific payback, the carrier aviators who avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway, Stephen L. Moore

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-424) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmapsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pacific payback

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

861673774

Responsibility statement

Stephen L. Moore

Sub title

the carrier aviators who avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway

Summary

Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific. But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS Enterprise returning to their home base on Oahu, it was a morning from hell. Flying directly into the Japanese ambush at Pearl Harbor, they lost a third of their squadron and witnessed the heart of America's Navy broken and smoldering on the oil-slicked waters below. The next six months, from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway--a dark time during which the Japanese scored victory after victory--this small band of aviators saw almost constant deployment, intense carrier combat and fearsome casualties

Table Of Contents

"We would have one helluva celebration" -- "Our world was shattered" -- The stuff -- "I was really upset" -- "We lost as much as we gained" -- Island raiders -- Arrival of the "new boys" -- "Something big was in the works" -- "God, this is it!" -- Five minutes of glory -- The deadly flights home -- The Japanese strike back -- The flying dragon strike -- "The little devil was most difficult to hit" -- "I wish I had just one more bomb"

Target audience

adult

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