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Bezig met laden... Pacific Payback: The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midwaydoor Stephen L. Moore
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Another disappointing WWII book for me. Stephen Moore tells the stories of the dive bomber pilots from Enterprise, Yorktown, and Hornet who sank 4 Japanese carriers during the Battle of Midway in June 1942. Certainly it's a story that deserves telling, but I didn't like how Moore plain out got facts wrong, wrote some paragraphs that simply didn't make any sense, jumped around from character to character within paragraphs (making it very confusing to read), and really never answered "why" questions. I would have liked to have seen more analysis and less talk of which plane and which pilot got jumped by Zeros during their dive and what they thought of it. Not to take anything away from the courage of these men, or the other fliers off the carriers, but the US won the Battle of Midway partially by good luck. Several times in this book, Moore raises an issue where people acted poorly, but then never explores those issues, instead talking about the next person in line. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Describes the fearless crew of the USS Enterprise whose offensive blow in the Marshall Islands against the Japanese led the turning of the tide during World War II. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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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...