5,000 miles towards Tokyo
Publisher: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1945
Published: 1945
Place of publication: Norman, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: 5,000 Miles Towards Tokyo; title: Contents; title: A Foreword. vii; title: 1 Three Little Indians 3; title: 2 Training Is What Counts 14; title: 3 A Pattern for Invasion 25; title: 4 Appointment in Tarawa 35; title: 5 How to Re-form an Air Group 45; title: 6 Life on a Carrier 55; title: 7 Explosion in the Marshalls 68; title: 8 A Surprise for Eniwetok 19; title: 9 General MacArthur's Navy 87; title: 10 A Quiet Time at Hollandia 97; title: 11 Trouble at Saipan 106; title: 12 From Guam to Morotai 117; title: 13 "I Have Returned" 128; title: 14 What the Japs Went After 138; title: 15 What They Found 148; title: Roster of Pilots and Air Crewmen 161; title: Index 167; title: Illustrations; title: Gunner's turret facing page 16; title: The planes looked like birds 17; title: At Espiritu Santo 32; title: Before dawn the Hellcats were gone 33; title: Briefing pilots in the ready room 48; title: General Quarters 49; title: A TBF is pushed 64; title: The signal officer 65; title: A faulty landing 80; title: The Oak Club at Noumea 81; title: Guam was quiet 96; title: Their planes hit Palau 91; title: Death comes to a tanker 112; title: The Japs strike 113; title: A damaged F6F 144; title: The explosion on the Suwannee 145