Before they were the black sheep
Subtitle: Marine Fighting Squadron VMF-214 and the battle for the Solomon Islands
By: Carl O. Dunbar ; edited by Peter M. Dunbar
Contributors: Dunbar, Peter M.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780813037257
Subjects: Correspondence; Campaigns; American Personal narratives; American Aerial operations; World War, 1939-1945; United States. Marine Fighter Squadron, 214th; Regimental histories; United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Squantum Naval Air Station and the U.S. Naval Reserve Aviation Base in Atlanta, December 17, 1941-March 9, 1942; title: U.S. Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, March 12, 1942-July 12, 1942; title: U.S. Naval Air Station, Miami, Florida, July 28, 1942-November 11, 1942; title: San Diego to Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, December 5, 1942-March 12, 1943; title: Fighter One Air Base, Guadalcanal, March 13, 1943-May 28, 1943; title: Advance Base Knucklehead, Banika in the Russell Islands, June 6, 1943-August 14, 1943; title: Airfield at Munda Point, New Georgia Island, August 15, 1943-August 31, 1943; title: Bougainville and home.