Author: Samuel Eliot MorisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions: May 1942-August 1942
Author: Samuel Eliot MorisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions: May 1942-August 1942
Author: Samuel Eliot MorisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
United States Naval History
Author: United States. Department of the Navy. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Pacific War
Author: Douglas FordPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847252370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A rich and broadranging account of the Asia-Pacific campaigns of WWII.
West Point History of World War II
Author: United States Military AcademyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476782733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Reader's Digest Endowed Book Fund.
Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet
Author: Gerald E. WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Encyclopedia of World War II
Author: Alan AxelrodPublisher: H W Fowler
ISBN: 0816060223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 911
Book Description
A reference to the ideological, military, political, biographical, and social topics surrounding World War II, which is often considered the pivotal event of the twentieth century.
Fly Boy Heroes
Author: James H. HallasPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0811771326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
On the morning of December 7, 1941, Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John W. Finn, though suffering multiple wounds, continued to man his machine gun against waves of Japanese aircraft attacking the Kaneohe Bay Naval Station during the infamous Pearl Harbor raid. Just over three years later, as World War II struggled into its final months, a B-29 radioman named Red Erwin lingered near death after suffering horrific burns to save his air crew in the skies off Japan. They were the first and last of thirty U.S. Navy, Army, and Marine Corps aviation personnel awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions against the Japanese during World War II. They included pilots and crewmen manning fighters and dive bombers and flying boats and bombers. One was a general. Another was a sergeant. Some shot down large numbers of enemy aircraft in aerial combat. Others sacrificed themselves for their friends or risked everything for complete strangers. Who were these now largely forgotten men? Where did they come from? What inspired them to rise “above and beyond”? What, if anything, made them different? Virtually all had one thing in common: they always wanted to fly. They came from a generation that revered the aces of World War I, like Eddie Rickenbacker, the civilian flyer Charles Lindbergh, and the lost aviator Amelia Earhart—and then they blazed their own trail during World War II.
At War With The Wind:
Author: David SearsPublisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0806535962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Drawing from hundreds of interviews with WWII veterans who survived Japan’s terrifying kamikaze strikes, acclaimed author and former U.S. Navy Officer David Sears vividly portrays what it was like to experience this tactic, capturing the real-life dramas behind America’s first confrontation with the psychology and devastating impact of suicide warfare. In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific. To the sailors who learned to fear them, the body-crashing warriors of Japan were known as “suiciders”; among the Japanese, they were named for a divine wind that once saved the home islands from invasion: Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic, At War with the Wind is the first book to recount in nail-biting detail what it was like to experience an attack by Japanese kamikazes. Acclaimed author David Sears draws on personal interviews and unprecedented research to create a narrative of war that is stunning in its vividness and unforgettable in its revelations. This is the candid story of a war within a war—a relentless series of furious and violent engagements pitting men determined to die against men determined to live. Its echoes resonate hauntingly at a time of global conflict, especially when suicide as a weapon remains a perplexing and terrifying reality. Main Selection of the Military Book Club Featured Alternate of the History Book Club
Case studies in the achievement of air superiority
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428992472
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description