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Author Moore, Stephen L.

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

Publication Info. New York, New York : NAL Caliber, [2014]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Eureka Non-Fiction  940.5426 Moo    ---  Available
Description viii, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-424) and index.
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".
Local Note 1 2
Subject Midway, Battle of, 1942.
United States. Navy. Bombing Squadron Six.
United States. Navy. Scouting Squadron Six.
Dauntless (Dive bomber)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American.
Enterprise (Aircraft carrier : CV-6)
ISBN 9780451465528 : $26.95
0451465520

 
    
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