USS Yorktown at MidwayXulon Press, 2004 - 164 páginas In the epic Battle of Midway, USS Yorktown, with 2,500 men aboard, received three bomb hits and two torpedoes. Eighty-six men died instantlymany were wounded. At the command, Abandon ship! the crew slid down the lines into the murky, oily waters of the Pacific.Barefoot survivors knelt on the steel deck of a rescuing war ship and offered thanks to the Almighty. The author is a survivor. |
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Foreword | xi |
Preface | xvii |
Dead in the Water | 23 |
The Gathering Storm | 35 |
Romance Blooms in San Diego | 53 |
Destruction at Pearl Harbor | 63 |
Battle of the Coral Sea | 77 |
Battle of Midway | 99 |
Rescue at Sea | 117 |
Fruit of My Labors | 129 |
For God and Country | 147 |
Battle of Midway | 157 |
Killed in ActionAir Wing | 159 |
Epilogue | 161 |
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