Title:
Enterprise : America's fightingest ship and the men who helped win World War II / Barrett Tillman.
ISBN:
9781439190876
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Physical Description:
xv, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Prologue: Kearny, New Jersey, 1958 -- "I have done the state some service" (1938-1941) -- "Keep cool, keep your heads, and fight" (December 1941-May 1942) -- "Revenge, sweet revenge" (June 1942) -- "We didn't know a damned thing" (August 1942) -- "A fighting chance" (October 1942) -- "The most exciting part of your day" (November 1942-January 1943) -- "A long and teedjus journey" (February-December 1943) -- "If any of them lived it wasn't our fault" (January-June 1944) -- "Vector two seven zero" (June-July 1944) -- "Only human" (August-December 1944) -- "Live with great enthusiasm" (January-May 1945) -- "The Enterprise has a soul" (1945-1958).
Summary:
Offering a naval history of the entire Pacific Theater in World War II through the lens of its most famous ship, this is the epic and heroic story of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and of the men who fought and died on her from Pearl Harbor to the end of the conflict.
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OCLC Number:
ocn741542547
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