| Description |
296 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
On 27 October 1942, four "Long Lance" torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). Minutes later, the ship that had launched the Doolitte Raid six months earlier slipped beneath the waves of the Coral Sea 100 miles northeast of the island of Guadalcanal and just north of the Santa Cruz Islands, taking with her 140 of her sailors. With the loss of Hornet, the United States Navy now had one aircraft carrier left in the South Pacific, USS Enterprise (CV-6), herself badly damaged in the two previous days of the Battle of Santa Cruz, the fourth Japanese-American carrier battle since the Battle of the Coral Sea five months and three weeks before. Of the prewar carrier fleet the Navy had struggled to build over 15 years, only three were left: Enterprise licked her wounds at Espiritu Santo while USS Saratoga (CV-3) lay in dry dock at the Bremerton Navy Yard, victim of a Japanese submarine torpedo two months earlier. USS Ranger (CV-4) was in mid-Atlantic on her way to support Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa. |
| Subject |
United States. Navy -- Aviation -- History -- 20th century.
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United States. Navy. (OCoLC)fst00533204
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World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean.
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Second World War.
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History -- Military -- World War II.
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History -- United States -- 20th Century.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
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Aircraft carriers -- United States -- History.
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Aircraft carriers. (OCoLC)fst00802803
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Armed Forces -- Aviation.
(OCoLC)fst01351741
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Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
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Military operations, Aerial -- American.
(OCoLC)fst01710199
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Military operations, Naval -- American.
(OCoLC)fst01710245
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Pacific Ocean. (OCoLC)fst01243528
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943-October 1944 |
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U.S. Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943-October 1944 |
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United States Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943-October 1944 |
| ISBN |
9781472821843 |
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147282184X |
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