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Pacific Thunder

The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944

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Pacific Thunder

著者: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
ナレーター: Stuart Milligan
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Bloomsbury presents Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943-October 1944 by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, read by Stuart Milligan.

A thorough and compelling investigation of the Central Pacific campaign in World War II that saw the US Navy progress from the edge of disaster to the brink of victory, from Guadalcanal to the recapture of the Philippines.

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. Of the pre-war carrier fleet the Navy had struggled to build over 15 years, only three were left: USS Enterprise, which had been badly damaged in the battle of Santa Cruz; USS Saratoga (CV-3) which lay in dry dock, victim of a Japanese submarine torpedo; and the USS Ranger (CV-4), which was in the mid-Atlantic on her way to support Operation Torch.

For the American naval aviators licking their wounds in the aftermath of this defeat, it would be difficult to imagine that within 24 months of this event, Zuikaku, the last survivor of the carriers that had attacked Pearl Harbor, would lie at the bottom of the sea. Alongside it lay the other surviving Japanese carriers, sacrificed as lures in a failed attempt to block the American invasion of the Philippines, leaving the United States to reign supreme on the world’s largest ocean.

Now publishing in paperback, this is the fascinating account of the Central Pacific campaign, one of the most stunning comebacks in naval history, as in just 14 months the US Navy went from the jaws of defeat to the brink of victory in the Pacific.©2017 Thomas McKelvey Cleaver (P)2026 Bloomsbury
20世紀 国防軍 戦争・紛争 海軍 第二次世界大戦 近代
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This is an excellent piece of historical work which is thoroughly engaging and worth every penny!
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