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01965aam a2200265 i 4500 001 FDA64930F3AE11ED84149D5C3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230516010036 008 220131s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2022902007 020 $a 1646636406 020 $a 9781646636402 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Gibson, Robert Douglas, $d 1919- 245 12 $a A hoot in Hell's Island $h [book] : $b the heroic story of World War II dive bomber Lt. Cmdr. Robert D. "Hoot" Gibson / $c Col. Kirk Gibson Warner (USA, Ret.) and Robert D. Gibson. 250 $a First. 264 1 $a Virginia Beach : $b Koehlerbooks, $c 2022. 300 $a pages cm. 520 $a "In the dark days of 1942, the battle for the Solomon Islands was very much in doubt. Carrier dive bomber Robert "Hoot" Gibson sighted the Japanese Fleet heading for "Hell's Island." He attacked the vanguard ships, sinking the heavy cruiser Kinugasa and two loaded Japanese troop transports in a fight royal that earned him the Navy Cross. He was also credited with the sinking of an I-Class submarine and shooting down two Zeroes, after going toe-to-toe with Japan's premier ace pilot. He alone accounted for the deaths of thousands of Japanese soldiers and sailors. Hoot was a hero when America needed heroes and when America needed to turn the tide of the war from defense to offense. He was on the Yorktown at Midway and the Enterprise at Guadalcanal. Hoot was in three of the five carrier battles of the war, the first and last amphibious invasions of WWII, and thirteen major battles. A Hoot in Hell's Island tells Hoot's dramatic story and that of the American navy in the crucial battles of the Pacific War"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20230307. 650 $a World War $y 1939-1945. 700 $a Warner, Kirk Gibson, $d 1958- 941 $a 1 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20230516010543.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FDA64930F3AE11ED84149D5C3CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search