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By John B. Lundstrom
Hailed as one of many best examples of aviation study, this entire 1984 research provides an in depth and scrupulously exact operational background of carrier-based air struggle. From the earliest operations within the Pacific throughout the decisive conflict of halfway, it deals a story account of the way ace fighter pilots like Jimmy Thach and Butch O'Hare and their expert VF squadron associates - referred to as the "first team" - collected a striking strive against checklist within the face of determined odds.
Tapping either American and jap assets, historian John B. Lundstrom reconstructs each major motion and locations those outstanding opponents in the context of total service operations. He writes from the point of view of the pilots themselves, after interviewing a few fifty airmen from both sides, to provide readers intimate information of a few of the main interesting aerial engagements of the struggle. whilst he assesses the function the fighter squadrons performed in key activities and exhibits how ideas in fighter strategies and gunnery strategies have been a chief explanation for the reversal of yank fortunes. After greater than two decades in print, the e-book is still the definitive account and is being released in paperback for the 1st time to arrive a good better audience.
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