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Author:

Stafford, Edward Peary, 1918-2013, author.

Title:

The Big E : the story of the USS Enterprise / Edward P. Stafford ; with an introduction by Paul Stillwell.

Edition:

First Naval Institute Press illustrated edition.

Publisher:

Naval Institute Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xi, 560 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 32 cm

Subject:

Enterprise (Aircraft carrier : CV-6)
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean.

Other Authors:

Stillwell, Paul, 1944- author of introduction.

Notes:

First published by Random House in 1962. First published by Naval Institute Press, with a new introduction, in 1988. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword to the illustrated edition -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Book One. Peace -- War -- Guarding the islands -- Into the South Seas -- Back to Wake -- Colonel Doolittle goes to Tokyo -- Coral Sea cruise -- Action off Midway -- Book Two. Pearl and a mission to the south -- First visit to an ugly island -- The Eastern Solomons -- Ordeal off Santa Cruz -- The slot -- Espiritu, Noumea, and Chicago -- Book Three. Intermission -- Makin and the Marshalls -- First steps west -- Penetration to Palau -- A month in the Marianas -- Foray to the Philippines -- Leyte in the fall -- Hunters in the dark -- Return to Japan -- Tomi Zai -- Epilogue -- Chronological order of events, USS Enterprise -- Commanding officers of USS Enterprise -- Air groups and their commanders embarked in USS Enterprise during World War II -- Battle stars awarded USS Enterprise.

ISBN:

9781591148029 (hardcover)
1591148022 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)908398253

LCCN:

2016304173

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)