Pacific payback
Subtitle: the carrier aviators who avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway
By: Stephen L. Moore
Publisher: NAL Caliber
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780451465528
Subjects: Midway, Battle of, 1942; Dauntless (Dive bomber); World War, 1939-1945; American Aerial operations; American Naval operations; United States. Navy. Bombing Squadron Six; United States; United States. Navy. Scouting Squadron Six; Enterprise (Aircraft carrier : CV-6)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references(pages 381-393) and index.
Table of contents: title: "We would have one helluva celebration"; title: "Our world was shattered"; title: The stuff; title: "I was really upset"; title: "We lost as much as we gained"; title: Island raiders; title: Arrival of the "new boys"; title: "Something big was in the works"; title: "God, this is it!"; title: Five minutes of glory; title: The deadly flights home; title: The Japanese strike back; title: The flying dragon strike; title: "The little devil was most difficult to hit"; title: "I wish I had just one more bomb".