num_pages: 191
description: In a fusion of art and history, portrayed in accurate detail, complete with combatant's personal insights, War in Pacific Skies covers the most famous air engagements in WWII's Pacific Theater of Operation. Full color maps, previously unpublished photographs, original artwork and personal accounts visually and mentally enliven the air battles at Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Midway, Guam, Tinian, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and more. Climb in to the cockpit of America's famous Pacific war birds: the P-38 which carried Richard Bong to his 40 kills, the obsolete Curtiss Hawk piloted by Harry Brown who accounted for the only American airborne response at Pearl Harbor and join Colonel Tibitts in the "Enola Gay" as the B-29 Superfortress makes its final approach on Hiroshima.
language: English
title: War in Pacific Skies
titlecomplete: War in Pacific Skies
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Zenith Pr