Description
Product ID: | 9781472821881 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Pacific Thunder |
Subtitle: | The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944 |
Authors: | Author: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver |
Page Count: | 296 |
Subjects: | History of the Americas, History of the Americas, Second World War, Naval forces and warfare, Battles and campaigns, Second World War, Naval forces & warfare, Battles & campaigns, USA, Pacific Ocean, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A thorough and compelling investigation of the Central Pacific campaign in World War II that saw the US Navy progress from the edge of disaster to the brink of victory, from Guadalcanal to the recapture of the Philippines. On October 27 1942, four “Long Lance” torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). Minutes later, the ship that had launched the Doolitte Raid six months earlier slipped beneath the waves of the Coral Sea. Of the pre-war carrier fleet the Navy had struggled to build over 15 years, only three were left: USS Enterprise, which had been badly damaged in the battle of Santa Cruz; the USS Saratoga (CV-3), which lay in dry dock, victim of a Japanese submarine torpedo; and the USS Ranger (CV-4), which was in mid-Atlantic on her way to support Operation Torch. |
Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-11-29 |