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Author : Pat Frank,Joseph Daniel Harrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Midway, Battle of, 1942
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033827333
Author : Stephen L. Moore
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593186688
The true story of the valiant men who gave their all to save the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown—and changed the course of the Pacific War. On June 4, 1942—six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor—Yorktown’s crew began the carrier’s final battle against Japan’s infamous aircrafts. Hotshot fighter pilot Lieutenant Scott McCuskey attacked from the air in his Wildcat, becoming the Navy’s second-ever “ace in a day.” Carpenter Boyd McKenzie worked tirelessly to repair Yorktown before a fresh air strike. Critically injured gun crew member George Weise fought for his life as the ship threatened to capsize. Meanwhile, Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class Warren Heller raced to save the lives of bloodied gunners and sailors by evacuating them before time ran out. The stories of these heroes and many other brave servicemen bring the gripping narrative of Yorktown’s final thirty days to life, as she fights in the near back-to-back Battles of Coral Sea and Midway. Through unpublished memoirs and interviews with Yorktown’s last surviving veterans, acclaimed author Stephen L. Moore offers up a new and compelling amount of a pivotal month in World War II, while honoring the courage of those who served.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : OSU:32435061941365
Author : Alan Levine
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597977111
Analyzes the most critical campaigns of World War II from 1942 to 1943, examining the conflict from a geographical perspective and discussing the key developments that turned the tides of war in favor of the Allied powers.
Author : John B Lundstrom,Steve Ewing
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612512211
Fighter pilot Butch O'Hare became one of America's heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation. In fascinating detail the authors describe how O'Hare shot down five attacking Japanese bombers and severely damaged a sixth and other awe-inspiring feats of aerial combat that won him awards, including the Medal of Honor. They also explain his key role in developing tactics and night-fighting techniques that helped defeat the Japanese. In addition, the authors investigate events leading up to O'Hare's disappearance in 1943 while intercepting torpedo bombers headed for the Enterprise. First published in 1997, this biography utilizes O'Hare family papers and U.S. and Japanese war records as well as eyewitness interviews. It is essential reading for a true understanding of the development of the combat naval aviation and the talents of the universally admired and well-liked Butch O'Hare.
Author : Milan N. Vego
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1935352113
"A detailed study of three major naval operations of World War II. These three, initiated by imperial Japan, took place in the Pacific and resulted in the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway/Aleutians, and the Philippine Sea. All the cases provide ample background on the geographic and strategic context of the operations, as well as an account of the unfolding of the action utilizing much primary source material in, especially, American and Japanese archives"--Provided by publisher.
Author : William A. Renzi,Mark D. Roehrs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317451495
World War II laid the groundwork for much of the international system that exists today, especially in the Pacific Rim. This brief but comprehensive survey of the War in the Pacific incorporates both United States and Japanese perspectives, providing a global approach to the Asian theater of the conflict. Drawing on decades of new scholarship and written in an engaging, narrative style, this book traces United States-Japanese relations from the late nineteenth century to the war's end in 1945. It covers every aspect of the war, and gives special attention to ongoing historical debates over key issues. The book also provides new details of many facets of the conflict, including expansionism during the 1930s, events and policies leading up to the war, the importance of air power and ground warfare, military planning and strategic goals, the internment of Japanese-Americans in the U.S., Allied plans and disputes over Russian participation, the decision to drop the atomic bomb, and conditions for surrender.
Author : Stephen L. Moore
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698186361
“Stephen L. Moore offers what will soon be ranked a major military classic... A major, first-rate, authoritative contribution to the literature of WWII.”—Leatherneck From the author of Pacific Payback comes the gripping true story of the Cactus Air Force and how this rugged crew of Dive-Bombers helped save Guadalcanal and won the war. November 1942: Japanese and American forces have been fighting for control of Guadalcanal, a small but pivotal island in Japan’s expansion through the South Pacific. Both sides have endured months of grueling battle under the worst circumstances: hellish jungles, meager rations, and tropical diseases, which have taken a severe mental and physical toll on the combatants. The Japanese call Guadalcanal Jigoku no Jima—Hell's Island. Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive bombers are called upon to help determine the island's fate. The men have until recently been serving in their respective squadrons aboard the USS Lexington and the USS Yorktown, fighting in the thick of the Pacific War's aerial battles. Their skills have been honed to a fine edge, even as injury and death inexorably have depleted their ranks. When their carriers are lost, many of the men end up on the USS Enterprise. Battle damage to that carrier then forces them from their home at sea to operating from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal. With some Marine and Army Air Force planes, they help form the Cactus Air Force, a motley assemblage of fliers tasked with holding the line while making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield. Pounded by daily Japanese air assaults, nightly warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle, pilots and gunners rarely last more than a few weeks before succumbing to tropical ailments, injury, exhaustion, and death. But when the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island once and for all, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty—and try to perform miracles in turning back an enemy warship armada, a host of fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports. A remarkable story of grit, guts, and heroism, The Battle for Hell's Island reveals how command of the South Pacific, and the outcome of the Pacific War, depended on control of a single dirt airstrip—and the small group of battle-weary aviators sent to protect it with their lives.
Author : Theodore Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0380787903
An account of the June, 1942, air battle between American and Japanese forces which proved a decisive defeat for the Japanese and the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
Author : Duane Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN : MINN:31951D00678154C
Author : William A. Renzi,Mark D. Roehrs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315488714
50 years ago, Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and brought a reluctant America into World War II. Armed with fresh materials, which have become available only in the last decade, Renzi and Roehrs take a critical look at the decisive Japanese-American episodes in "The Great Pacific War". Unlike standard histories of World War II, "Never Look Back" includes the Japanese perspective, bringing to light challenging facts: in "Operation Flying Elephant" the Japanese attempted to cause forest fires in the American West by releasing hydrogen-filled balloons. When Americans of Japanese ancestry were interned during the conflict, word reached Japan of their plight and resulted in even greater mistreatment of American POWs in Japan. It is argued that Japan did not surrender because of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or because of the conventional firebombing or because of the US submarine campaign, but because the USSR entered the war.
Author : E.L. Jackson
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798889601593
The Milky Way Galaxy is up in arms. The Taranis Reich has drawn the Beta Quadrant into a war that is spreading throughout the galaxy. Their lightning attacks have placed several star nations under total military occupation while still other nations are suffering under Taranian naval blockades. Even the mighty Unified Socialist Star Republic is ill-prepared to hold off a prolonged attack by the Reich's unique form of blitzkrieg warfare. The newly signed alliance between the Taranis Reich, the Andarta Empire, and the Triangulum Confederate will soon place all four galactic quadrants at risk of all-out war. Pirate fleets are being privately employed and hunted as they prowl the stars under no flag but their own. With the galaxy in disarray, the mysterious Atlantean pirate vessel Phoenix, under the command of Captain Lee-Ra, is currently in danger of being captured or destroyed by warships from both the Kuban and powerful Reich's navies. With the balance of the galaxy at stake, the question remains: Can the distant and untried United Stars Alliance continue to remain neutral?
Author : Ronald E. Martell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503539716
Showdown in the Pacific War: Nimitz and Yamamoto This unique book combines a carefully researched history with an easy to read analysis of the war in a fictional meeting between staff officers close to Admirals Chester Nimitz and Isoroku Yamamoto. They trace the events leading to the Pacific War and the heroic struggles following the attack on Pearl Harbor to the eclipse of the Japanese war machine at Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, and beyond. Showdown reveals Yamamoto’s opposition to Japan’s waging a war it could not win along with his planning of her early successes and Admiral Nimitz’s patient and careful reversal of the Empire’s offensives. Showdown presents an even-handed view of the nations that waged combat in the early stages of history’s most famous naval war. “Ron Martell has given us a new and very interesting look at World War II in the Pacific. Instead of simply retelling history, he puts the reader in a fictitious yet plausible latter-day conference between two of the conflict’s high-ranking adversaries, key staff officers of the American and Japanese navies. . . . It’s a genuine page-turner for any fan of World War II history. ” Ronald Russell, author of No Right to Win: A Continuing Dialogue with Veterans of the Battle of Midway. “Showdown in the Pacific is a thoroughly enjoyable read. . . . If someone asks me for a single book to read on how the Pacific War started and then was fought for the first 18 months, I will heartily recommend this one.” Thom Walla, Editor and Host of The Battle of Midway RoundTable.
Author : Richard Hough
Publisher : Canelo + ORM
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800325357
This is the story of the greatest naval conflict in history ‘The Second World War demanded more of its sailors than any other war in history, in endurance and unremitting need to face danger - danger from increasingly lethal weapons and an ever-increasing need for vigilance by day and night.' The war at sea - the longest battle of the Second World War - never ceased. From the Arctic Circle to the Pacific, the enemy threat was ever-present, on the surface, in the skies, and lurking beneath the waves. In this comprehensive and compelling history, Richard Hough brings the titanic struggle to life. Using personal accounts from veterans of all sides, his book tells the story of the Second World War at sea, including the Battle of the Atlantic and the U-boat menace, the infamy of Pearl Harbor, the American triumph at Midway, naval operations in support of D-Day, and the greatest naval battle of all time, Leyte Gulf. The definitive book about naval power in the Second World War, Richard Hough’s masterpiece is essential reading for followers of Max Hastings and James Holland. ‘We are in Richard Hough’s debt’ New York Times ‘Utterly absorbing’ Financial Times
Author : John B Lundstrom
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612512204
The revisionist work about Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who won his battles at sea but lost the war of public opinion. A surface warrior, Fletcher led the carrier forces in the Pacific that won against all odds at Coral Sea, Midway, and the Eastern Solomon’s. Despite these successes, during the post-war Fletcher had become one of the most controversial figures in U.S. naval history and was portrayed as a timid bungler who failed to relieve Wake Island and who deliberately abandoned the Marines at Guadalcanal.