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Author:
Moore, Stephen L. author.
Title:
Rain of steel : Mitscher's Task Force 58, Ugaki's Thunder Gods, and the Kamikaze war off Okinawa / Stephen L. Moore.
Publisher:
Naval Institute Press,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
xi, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Subject:
Mitscher, Marc Andrew,--1887-1947.
United States.--Task Force 58--Task Force 58--History.
Ugaki, Matome,--1890-1945.
Mitscher, Marc Andrew,--1887-1947.
Ugaki, Matome,--1890-1945.
United States.--Task Force 58--Task Force 58
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Okinawa Island.--Okinawa Island.
Fighter pilots--United States--Interviews.
Kamikaze airplanes.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, Japanese.
Military operations, Naval--American.
Military operations, Aerial--Japanese.
Military operations, Aerial--American.
Fighter pilots.
Kamikaze airplanes.
Military campaigns.
Military operations, Naval--Japanese.
Japan--Okinawa Island.
United States.
1939-1945
History.
Interviews.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Rain of Steel follows Navy and Marine carrier aviators in the desperate air battles to control the kamikazes directed by Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki. Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58 carriers had conducted air strikes on mainland Japan and supported the Iwo Jima landings, but his aviators were sorely tested once the Okinawa campaign commenced on April 1, 1945. Ugaki would unleash ten different Kikusui aerial suicide operations, one including a naval force built around the world's most powerful battleship, the 71,000-ton Yamato. These battles are related largely through the words and experiences of some of the last living U.S. fighter aces of World War II"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1682475263
9781682475263
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1151799121
LCCN:
2020012670
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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