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05878aam a2200493Ii 4500 001 DBE2D400047611EB89AE83802EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201002011536 008 190821s2020 nyuab b 001 0deng d 020 $a 006244851X 020 $a 9780062448514 035 $a (OCoLC)1112268342 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d TP7 $d OCLCF $d OCL $d RB0 $d IK2 $d LMJ $d OCL $d ILC $d YDXIT $d SILO 043 $a p------ 050 4 $a D767.9 $b .L44 2020 082 04 $a 940.54/26 $2 23 100 1 $a Lehr, Dick, $e author. 245 10 $a Dead reckoning : $b the story of how Johnny Mitchell and his fighter pilots took on Admiral Yamamoto and avenged Pearl Harbor / $c Dick Lehr. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2020] 300 $a xi, 399 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue: The day -- The making of warriors. Johnnie Bill and the Moon ; Isoroku, aeroplanes, and a geisha girl ; The flyboy from Enid ; No ordinary strategy ; A taste of war ; When the rose petals fell -- The South Pacific. Wedding bells and Pacific blues ; Unfinished business ; MIdway : Yamamoto's lament ; Mitchell on the move -- Guadalcanal. The first kill ; Nights to remember ; Moon over Guadalcanal -- Vengeance. Five days and counting ; One day more ; Dead reckoning -- Epilogue. 520 $a "The definitive and dramatic account of what became known as "Operation Vengeance" -- the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of Japan's larger-than-life military icon, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval genius who had devised the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor. "AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NO DRILL." At 7:58 a.m. on December 7, 1941, an officer at the Ford Island Command Center typed what would become one of the most famous radio dispatches in history, as the Japanese navy launched a surprise aerial assault on U.S. bases on Hawaii. In a little over two hours, more than 2,400 Americans were dead, propelling the U.S.'s entry into World War II. Dead Reckoning is the epic true story of the high-stakes operation undertaken sixteen months later to avenge that deadly strike &; a longshot mission hatched hastily at the U.S. base on Guadalcanal. Expertly crafting this "hunt for Bin Laden"-style WWII story, New York Times bestselling author Dick Lehr recreates the tension-filled events leading up to the climactic clash in the South Pacific skies -- frontline moments loaded with xenophobia, spycraft, sacrifice and broken hearts. Lehr goes behind the scenes at Station Hypo on Hawaii, where U.S. Navy code breakers first discovered exactly where and when to find Admiral Yamamoto, on April 18, 1943, and then chronicles in dramatic detail the nerve-wracking mission to kill him. He focuses on Army Air Force Major John W. Mitchell, the ace fighter pilot from the tiny hamlet of Enid, Mississippi who was tasked with conceiving a flight route, literally to the second, for the only U.S. fighter plane on Guadalcanal capable of reaching Yamamoto hundreds of miles away -- the new twin-engine P-38 Lightning with its fabled "cone of fire." Given unprecedented access to Mitchell's personal papers and hundreds of private letters, Lehr reveals for the first time the full story of Mitchell's wartime exploits up to the face-off with Yamamoto, along with those of key American pilots Mitchell chose for the momentous mission: Rex Barber, Thomas Lanphier Jr., Besby Holmes, and Ray Hine. The spotlight also shines on their enemy target -- Admiral Yamamoto, the enigmatic, charismatic commander in chief of Japan's Combined Fleet, whose complicated feelings about the U.S. (he studied at Harvard) add rich complexity. In this way Dead Reckoning offers at once a fast-paced recounting of a crucial turning point in the Pacific war and keenly drawn portraits of its two main protagonists: Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of Pearl Harbor, and John Mitchell, the architect of the Yamamoto's demise." -- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a Lehr provides the definitive account of what became known as "Operation Vengeance": the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of Japan's larger-than-life military icon, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval genius who had devised the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor. The high-stakes operation was undertaken sixteen months after Pearl Harbor, a longshot mission hatched hastily at the U.S. base on Guadalcanal. Lehr goes behind the scenes at Station Hypo on Hawaii, where U.S. Navy code breakers first discovered exactly where and when to find Admiral Yamamoto, on April 18, 1943, and then chronicles in dramatic detail the nerve-wracking mission to kill him. He focuses on Army Air Force Major John W. Mitchell, the ace fighter pilot tasked with conceiving a flight route with the new twin-engine P-38 Lightning with its fabled "cone of fire." 600 10 $a Mitchell, John William, $d 1915-1995. 600 10 $a Yamamoto, Isoroku, $d 1884-1943 $x Assassination. 600 17 $a Yamamoto, Isoroku, $d 1884-1943. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00041497 650 0 $a Operation Vengeance, 1943. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Pacific Area. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations. 650 7 $a Assassination. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00818962 650 7 $a Military campaigns. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710190 650 7 $a Military operations, Aerial. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710198 651 7 $a Pacific Area. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01243504 648 7 $a 1939-1945 $2 fast 941 $a 5 952 $l WFPC115 $d 20230216161816.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909061625.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20210302015324.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103013631.0 952 $l SEPC074 $d 20201028010347.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DBE2D400047611EB89AE83802EECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search