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Operation Vengeance : the astonishing aerial ambush that changed World War II / Dan Hampton.

Hampton, Dan, (author.).

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"...[a] narrative account of the top-secret U.S. mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander who masterminded Pearl Harbor."-- Publisher marketing.
1943. Naval Intelligence intercepted the itinerary of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, whose stealth attack on Pearl Harbor precipitated America's entry into the war. On April 18th he would travel to Rabaul in the South Pacific to visit Japanese troops, then fly to the Japanese airfield at Balalale, 400 miles to the southeast. Operation Vengeance was born. To avoid detection, U.S. pilots had to embark on a circuitous, 1,000-mile odyssey that would test not only their skills but the physical integrity of their planes. The slightest miscalculation, even by a few minutes, meant the entire plan would collapse. Hampton focuses on the mission's pilots and recreates the moment-by-moment drama they experienced in the air. -- adapted from jacket

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062938091
  • ISBN: 0062938096
  • Physical Description: xvi, 430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-404) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Author's note -- Foreword by Rex Barber Jr. and Rex Barber III -- Prologue -- Cauldron -- The twilight -- Down but never out -- Shoestring -- The American toe -- Borrowed lives -- Magnificent courage -- At any cost -- Sharks and dolphins -- The eight-fingered samurai -- Vengeance -- Dominoes -- Epilogue.
Subject: Operation Vengeance, 1943.
Yamamoto, Isoroku, 1884-1943 > Assassination.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Solomon Islands.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American.
Air pilots > United States.

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Joseph & Elizabeth Shaw Public Library 940.5426 HAMPTON (Text)
Memorial: In memory of Blair WIlliams presented by Garry and Peg Barton.
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