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Pacific air : how fearless flyboys, peerless aircraft, and fast flattops conquered a vast ocean's wartime skies
Format:
Book
Title:
Pacific air : how fearless flyboys, peerless aircraft, and fast flattops conquered a vast ocean's wartime skies
ISBN:
9780306819483
Edition:
1st Da Capo Press ed.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
372 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
State of war. The embattled farmers ; My God! What's happened? -- Hard pressed. Prototypes ; Terminal velocity ; Samurai ; Low blower -- A precarious honor. Sans celebration ; Jimmie and Butch ; There is only one mistake ; Scratch two flattops ; A bag of gold through a lonely forest ; Return buster -- Blue skies, green hell. Get down to work ; It isn't good ; These have got us ; Attack! Repeat, attack! -- The hop supreme. You look good out there, honey ; Butch may be down ; They will be knocked down ; Missions beyond darkness -- Appendix. U.S. Navy pilots and crews.
Summary:
Offers an account of the U.S. airmen's roles in the air battles that took place over the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
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