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The Kamikaze hunters : fighting for the Pacific, 1945

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: First Pegasus Books hardcover editionDescription: x, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781681771670 :
  • 1681771675
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 940.54/4952 23
LOC classification:
  • D792.J3 I74 2016
Contents:
Flying sailors -- They were like gods -- Wakey-wakey, rise and shine, show a leg -- Bags of food and lights and girls -- Wings -- they don't know what they want and they won't be happy till they get it -- Flat-hatters -- Blooded -- Flat tops -- An enterprise of the first magnitude -- The balloons go up -- The jitter effect -- The body crashers -- April fools -- A formidable return -- Little yellow baskets -- Breaking point -- The absolute full -- The final onslaught.
Summary: "Follows a group of young men who fought towards the end of World War II, from their enlistment and initial training to the terrifying and unexpected reality of fighting against pilots who would rather choose death than a dishonorable defeat,"--NoveList.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 940.54 IRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000540561

Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-370) and index.

Flying sailors -- They were like gods -- Wakey-wakey, rise and shine, show a leg -- Bags of food and lights and girls -- Wings -- they don't know what they want and they won't be happy till they get it -- Flat-hatters -- Blooded -- Flat tops -- An enterprise of the first magnitude -- The balloons go up -- The jitter effect -- The body crashers -- April fools -- A formidable return -- Little yellow baskets -- Breaking point -- The absolute full -- The final onslaught.

"Follows a group of young men who fought towards the end of World War II, from their enlistment and initial training to the terrifying and unexpected reality of fighting against pilots who would rather choose death than a dishonorable defeat,"--NoveList.

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