TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hampton,Dan
TI  - Operation Vengeance: the astonishing aerial ambush that changed World War II 
SN  - 9780062938091
AV  - D767.98 .H338 2020
U1  - 940.54/26593 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Yamamoto, Isoroku,
KW  - Operation Vengeance, 1943
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Solomon Islands
KW  - Aerial operations, American
KW  - Air pilots
KW  - United States
KW  - fast
KW  - Assassination
KW  - Military campaigns
KW  - Military operations, Aerial
KW  - American
KW  - sears
KW  - Aerial operations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-404) and index; Author's note -- Foreword by Rex Barber Jr. and Rex Barber III -- Prologue -- Cauldron -- The twilight -- Down but never out -- Shoestring -- The American toe -- Borrowed lives -- Magnificent courage -- At any cost -- Sharks and dolphins -- The eight-fingered samurai -- Vengeance -- Dominoes -- Epilogue
N2  - " ... [a] narrative account of the top-secret U.S. mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander who masterminded Pearl Harbor."--; 1943. Naval Intelligence intercepted the itinerary of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, whose stealth attack on Pearl Harbor precipitated America's entry into the war. On April 18th he would travel to Rabaul in the South Pacific to visit Japanese troops, then fly to the Japanese airfield at Balalale, 400 miles to the southeast. Operation Vengeance was born. To avoid detection, U.S. pilots had to embark on a circuitous, 1,000-mile odyssey that would test not only their skills but the physical integrity of their planes. The slightest miscalculation, even by a few minutes, meant the entire plan would collapse. Hampton focuses on the mission's pilots and recreates the moment-by-moment drama they experienced in the air. --
ER  -