Pacific payback : the carrier aviators who avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway
(2014)
By:
Moore, Stephen L
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
940.542669/MOORE,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, New York : NAL Caliber, 2014
DESCRIPTION
viii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780451465528, 9780451465528, 0451465520 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"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"