Shades of Blue
Subtitle: Us Naval Air Power Since 1941
Publisher: Motorbooks International
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780760308448
Subjects: United States; Navy; Military - Aviation; History - Military / War; Transportation; United States.; Military - Naval; Military - United States; Aviation; History
First sentence: At 0755 hours on the peaceful early morning of Sunday, 7 December 1941, the first wave of a Japanese strike force, some 350 aircraft in all, from their carriers 275 miles away reached the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands, split into elements and headed for their objectives: Admiral Kimmel's American Pacific fleet at anchor in Pearl Harbor, and airfields nearby.