| Semper Fi in the Sky: The Marine Air Battles of World War II Contributor(s): Astor, Gerald (Author) |
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ISBN: 0891418776 ISBN-13: 9780891418771 Publisher: Ballantine Group OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2005 Annotation: Here, one of America' s most popular military historians re-creates, using their own moving and powerful voices, the true stories of the U.S. Marine pilots who flew the Allies to victory in World War II. These riveting accounts recreate conflicts ranging from the Marines' gallant defense of Wake Island, where Captain Henry " Baron" Elrod destroyed two enemy planes before joining the fight on the ground, earning a posthumous Medal of Honor in the last-ditch attempt to stave off the Japanese, to the Battle of Midway and Guadalcanal. Running the gamut from Second Lieutenant Alvin Jensen' s single-handed destruction of twenty-four grounded Japanese aircraft on Kahili to Lieutenant John W. Leaper' s sawing off a Kamikaze' s tail with his propeller over Okinawa, these thrilling oral histories of the Pacific war' s air battles bring them to life in all their terror and triumph. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Military - Aviation |
| Dewey: 940.544 |
| LCCN: 2005045804 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.16" (0.71 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Here, one of America's most popular military historians re-creates, using their own moving and powerful voices, the true stories of the U.S. Marine pilots who flew the Allies to victory in World War II. These riveting accounts recreate conflicts ranging from the Marines' gallant defense of Wake Island, where Captain Henry "Baron" Elrod destroyed two enemy planes before joining the fight on the ground, earning a posthumous Medal of Honor in the last-ditch attempt to stave off the Japanese, to the Battle of Midway and Guadalcanal. Running the gamut from Second Lieutenant Alvin Jensen's single-handed destruction of twenty-four grounded Japanese aircraft on Kahili to Lieutenant John W. Leaper's sawing off a Kamikaze's tail with his propeller over Okinawa, these thrilling oral histories of the Pacific war's air battles bring them to life in all their terror and triumph. |