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Author : Bob George
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411688481
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Aviation Engineers Avenging Pearl Harbor written by Bob George and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Cotner
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462014127
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book 1001 B-29s Avenge Pearl Harbor written by Donald Cotner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1001 B-29s Avenge Pearl Harbor: Memoirs of a Flight Engineer features the true tales f an aviation officer of the United States Army Air Corps during the final year of World War II. These stories center around an airman's life on the Pacific island of Tinian, the base from which the B-29 Flying Fortress was unleashed against the empire of Japan. Engagingly written in the first-person, 1001 B-29s Avenge Pearl Harbor draws the reader into the human drama of the war in the Pacific theater: the tedium and terror, doubt and wonder, guilt and pride, and finally the joy that peace alone can bring. Numerous photographs complement the narrative and provide an immersive experience. Suspenseful, enlightening, poignant and often humorous, 1001 B-29s Avenge Pearl Harbor reveals the inner thoughts and emotions of a young man loyal to his country and his comrades-in- arms, confident in his abilities and his magnificent airplane, yet longing to fulfill his promise to return to his pregnant wife on the home front. Strap yourself in and prepare for an experience you'll never forget!
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Pearl Harbor Attack: Proceedings of Army Pearl Harbor Board written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1076 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Pearl Harbor Attack written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karl Christian Dod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Corps of Engineers written by Karl Christian Dod and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers Engineer operations in support of the U.S. Army in the war against Japan. The story begins with the defense build-up in 1939 and ends with the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri on 2 September 1945. Geographically, Engineer operations extended from the Panama Canal to India and from Alaska to Australia, in actual or potential areas of conflict. The author has attempted not only to depict various types of Engineer operations but also to indicate how Engineer work helped implement Allied strategy. Included are discussions of the Engineer position in the command structure and a general account of both Engineer combat and service missions within a given theater. -- From the Preface.
Author : Donald Cotner
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462014135
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book 1001 B-29s Avenge Pearl Harbor written by Donald Cotner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1001 B-29s Avenge Pearl Harbor: Memoirs of a Flight Engineer features the true tales f an aviation officer of the United States Army Air Corps during the final year of World War II. These stories center around an airman’s life on the Pacific island of Tinian, the base from which the B-29 Flying Fortress was unleashed against the empire of Japan. Engagingly written in the first-person, 1001 B-29s Avenge Pearl Harbor draws the reader into the human drama of the war in the Pacific theater: the tedium and terror, doubt and wonder, guilt and pride, and finally the joy that peace alone can bring. Numerous photographs complement the narrative and provide an immersive experience. Suspenseful, enlightening, poignant and often humorous, 1001 B-29s Avenge Pearl Harbor reveals the inner thoughts and emotions of a young man loyal to his country and his comrades-in- arms, confident in his abilities and his magnificent airplane, yet longing to fulfill his promise to return to his pregnant wife on the home front. Strap yourself in and prepare for an experience you’ll never forget!
Author : Karl Christian Dod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Corps of Engineers written by Karl Christian Dod and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen L. Moore
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451465539
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Pacific Payback written by Stephen L. Moore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deeply researched and well written....By far the most detailed account of USS Enterprise’s dive-bombers and their decisive role at the Battle of Midway.”* Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific.... But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS Enterprise returning to their home base on Oahu, it was a morning from hell. Flying directly into the Japanese ambush at Pearl Harbor, they lost a third of their squadron and witnessed the heart of America’s Navy broken and smoldering on the oil-slicked waters below. The next six months, from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway—a dark time during which the Japanese scored victory after victory—this small band of aviators saw almost constant deployment, intense carrier combat, and fearsome casualties. Many were killed by enemy Zero fighters, antiaircraft fire, or deadly crash landings in the Pacific, while others were captured and spent years in POW camps. Yet the Enterprise’s Dauntless crews would be the first to strike an offensive blow against Japanese installations in the Marshall Islands, would be the first to sink a Japanese warship, and would shepherd the Doolittle Raiders’ bombing of Tokyo. Not until Midway, though, would Dauntless crews get the chance to settle the score...and change the course of World War II. Drawing on dozens of new interviews and oral histories, author Stephen L. Moore brings to life inspiring stories of individual sacrifice and bravery—and the sweeping saga of one of America’s greatest triumphs. INCLUDES PHOTOS
Author : John Burton
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 161251524X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Fortnight of Infamy written by John Burton and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While America was preoccupied with the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, an even greater tragedy was unfolding across Southeast Asia. From Wake Island to Burma, the Empire of Japan opened the largest front in the history of warfare: an aircraft-driven invasion of colonial possessions throughout the Far East that crumbled the entire Western imperial legacy of the nineteenth-century. Events during the first two weeks of battle set the stage for the greatest military defeats America and Great Britain would suffer during any conflict. This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the collapse of Allied air forces during the period between December 8 and 24, 1941. Written for a wide audience, it gives readers both a cockpit view of the desperate actions that took place and an understanding of why such heavy losses occurred. The narrative account includes enough detail and analysis to hold the interest of serious students of Pacific War aviation and enough exciting descriptions of air combat to attract those with little knowledge of the subject. Explaining how and why the Japanese were able to win a quick victory, John Burton points to U.S. failures in the concepts for employment of airpower and a significant underestimation of Japanese "air-mindedness" and aviation capabilities, failures that resulted in the loss or surrender of more than 200,000 troops at Bataan and Singapore.
Author : Keith Warren Lloyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781493073108
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (731 download)
Download or read book Avenging Pearl Harbor written by Keith Warren Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 2023-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avenging Pearl Harbor takes readers from the attack on Pearl Harbor, telling the story of the severe damage dealt to the Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, California, and Tennessee (five of the eight dreadnoughts that had been sunk at Pearl Harbor) and the incredible acts of courage performed by the sailors of each crew that morning. It continues with how each ship was raised and repaired--Herculean in scope--and the mustering of new commanders, officers and crewmen. And it details the final drama of their revenge three years later as each of the five ships returns triumphantly to the battle fleet, and their ultimate triumph at the battle of Surigao Strait.
Author : Jeffrey J. Gudmens
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 142891644X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Staff Ride Handbook for the Attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 written by Jeffrey J. Gudmens and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Haulman
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603063889
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Killing Yamamoto written by Daniel Haulman and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most heroic World War II air raids by US forces was the one that killed Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander of the Combined Japanese Fleet and the man who planned the Pearl Harbor and Midway attacks in 1941 and 1942. The raid occurred on April 18, 1943, exactly one year after the famous Doolittle raid on Japan, but it accomplished more by eliminating Japan's most important admiral and leading strategist. This account stresses the crucial teamwork and planning, by codebreakers, strategic leaders, and pilots of the US Marine Corps, the US Navy, and the Army Air Corps, which achieved an almost miraculous interception. Those issues outweigh in significance the great controversy that emerged over the question of which of the pilots actually shot down the Yamamoto aircraft.
Author : John Grehan
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1526758237
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Doolittle Raid written by John Grehan and published by Air World. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of America’s response to Pearl Harbor, with “hundreds of photos of the various stages of the raid” (ModelingMadness). On April 1, 1942, less than four months after the world was stunned by the attack on Pearl Harbor, sixteen US aircraft took to the skies to exact retribution. Their objective was not merely to attack Japan, but to bomb its capital. The people of Tokyo, who had been told that their city was invulnerable from the air, would be bombed and strafed—and the shock waves from the raid would extend far beyond the explosions of the bombs. The raid had first been suggested in January 1942 as the US was still reeling from Japan’s preemptive strike against the US Pacific Fleet. The Americans were determined to fight back—as quickly as possible. The 17th Bomb Group (Medium) was chosen to provide the volunteers who would crew the sixteen specially modified North American B-25 bombers. As it was not possible to reach Tokyo from any US land bases, the bombers would have to fly from aircraft carriers, but it was impossible for such large aircraft to land on a carrier; the men had to volunteer for a one-way ticket. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, the seventy-one officers and 130 enlisted men embarked on the USS Hornet, which was shielded by a large naval task force—and set out on their mission, which would ultimately jolt the Japanese out of their complacency. This is the full story of this remarkable operation and the men and machines involved, told through a fascinating collection of photographic images.
Author : John Lundstrom
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 161251166X
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book The First Team written by John Lundstrom and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational history of carrier-based air warfare. From the earliest operations in the Pacific through the decisive Battle of Midway, it offers a narrative account of how ace fighter pilots like Jimmy Thach and Butch O'Hare and their skilled VF squadron mates - called the "first team" - amassed a remarkable combat record in the face of desperate odds. Tapping both American and Japanese sources, historian John B. Lundstrom reconstructs every significant action and places these extraordinary fighters within the context of overall carrier operations. He writes from the viewpoint of the pilots themselves, after interviewing some fifty airmen from each side, to give readers intimate details of some of the most exciting aerial engagements of the war. At the same time he assesses the role the fighter squadrons played in key actions and shows how innovations in fighter tactics and gunnery techniques were a primary reason for the reversal of American fortunes. After more than twenty years in print, the book remains the definitive account and is being published in paperback for the first time to reach an even larger audience.
Author : Ralph F. Wetterhahn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147666997X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Early Air War in the Pacific written by Ralph F. Wetterhahn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first 10 months of the war in the Pacific, Japan achieved air supremacy with its carrier and land-based forces. But after major setbacks at Midway and Guadalcanal, the empire's expansion stalled, in part due to flaws in aircraft design, strategy and command. This book offers a fresh analysis of the air war in the Pacific during the early phases of World War II. Details are included from two expeditions conducted by the author that reveal the location of an American pilot missing in the Philippines since 1942 and clear up a controversial account involving famed Japanese ace Saburo Sakai and U.S. Navy pilot James "Pug" Southerland.
Author : James M. Scott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246760
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor written by James M. Scott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History "Like Lauren Hillebrand's Unbroken…Target Tokyo brings to life an indelible era." —Ben Cosgrove, The Daily Beast On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations.
Author : Christopher J. Petty
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1649217099
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Battle Digest: Pearl Harbor written by Christopher J. Petty and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise guide to the Japanese attack on Hawaii that plunged America into WWII, with facts, maps, historical significance, and more. As America prepared for WWII, everything changed on December 7, 1941—described by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a “date which will live in infamy”—when Japan launched a successful surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor. The devastating attack crippled the fleet, while showing the world the new dominance of carrier-borne aircraft in naval warfare. Japan’s tactical success, however, belied her strategic failure. With America’s declaration of war the following day, Japan had created a determined and powerful enemy. And while Japan did gain time to expand in the Pacific, that time would be short-lived. Japan had awakened the “sleeping giant” of America. Learn how Admiral Yamamoto’s bold plan caught America by surprise yet doomed the larger Japanese cause. Learn also about Japan’s lost opportunities during the attack—opportunities that would have tilted the scales decidedly more in her favor. The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned.
