Enterprise : America's fightingest ship and the men who helped win World War II
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New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013.
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Book
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster paperback ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Status
Southside - Adult
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013.
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster paperback ed.
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-285) and index.
Description
The USS Enterprise took part in twenty battles during World War II--no other American ship came close. Enterprise is credited with sinking or wrecking 71 Japanese ships and destroying 911 enemy aircraft. This is the epic, heroic story of this legendary aircraft carrier--nicknamed "the fightingest ship" in the U.S. Navy--and of the men who fought and died on her. She was commissioned in 1938, and her bombers sank a submarine just three days after the Pearl Harbor attack, claiming the first seagoing Japanese vessel lost in the war. Barrett Tillman has been called "the man who owns naval aviation history." He's mined official records and oral histories as well as his own interviews to give us not only a portrait of the ship's unique contribution to winning the Pacific war, but also unforgettable portraits of the men who flew from her deck and worked behind the scenes to make success possible.--From publisher description.
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