"An Atlantic Monthly Press book." Preface, dated 1953, refers to corrections checked and collated "since the first edition." -- P. xi. Task organizations containing lists of American and Japanese ...

Summary and Key Points: The Midway-class aircraft carriers, including the USS Midway, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, and USS Coral Sea, represent the pinnacle of U.S. naval engineering from World War II ...

The USS Illinois (BB-65) was conceived as a tougher follow-on to the Iowa class and first of the planned Montana-type heavy ...

CORAL SEA, MIDWAY AND SUBMARINE ACTIONS (307 pp.)—Samuel Eliot Morison—Little, Brown ($6). THE STRUGGLE FOR GUADALCANAL (389 pp.)—Samuel Eliot Morison—Little, Brown ($6). BATTLE REPORT: VICTORY IN THE ...

At a critical moment during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, the order was given for the blacked-out US aircraft carriers to turn on their lights to assist American pilots returning to ...

A one hour documentary which outlines the Pacific Campaign, from the fleet versus fleet conflict and the carrier war in the Coral Sea, Midway and the Marianas, through General MacArthur's Island ...

Includes rev. ed. of v. 2 and latest printings of other volumes. v. 1. The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943.--v. 2. Operations in North African waters, October 1942-June 1943.--v. 3.

(WHTM) — It was the first sea battle in history where the warships never saw each other. The battle of the Coral Sea would be fought almost entirely by airplanes launched from aircraft carriers. As ...

If you want to follow, minute by minute, five of the major engagements of World War II in the Pacific as recorded by the British, then this is the book for you. The account of each engagement is drawn ...

The day after the main battle at Midway, the Japanese cruiser Mikuma is retreating westward, damaged and trailing oil... With air cover lost and American carriers still in the area, the situation is ...