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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.

Publisher:

NAL Caliber,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

viii, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Midway, Battle of, 1942.
United States.--Bombing Squadron Six.--Bombing Squadron Six.
United States.--Scouting Squadron Six.--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)

Notes:

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".

ISBN:

0451465520 (hbk.)
9780451465528 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)861673774

LCCN:

2013046133

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

YSPD232 -- Camanche Public Library (Camanche)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

DYPD423 -- Eldora Public Library (Eldora)

DJPD353 -- Hampton Public Library (Hampton)

AOPB937 -- Humeston Public Library (Humeston)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)