Sinking the Rising Sun: Dog Fighting & Dive Bombing in World War Ii: A Navy Fighter Pilot's Story - Couverture rigide

Davis, William

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ISBN 10 : 076032946X ISBN 13 : 9780760329467

Editeur : Zenith Press, 2007

Synopsis

William Davies was in college at the time of Pearl Harbor. He volunteered for the Navel Air Corp, and served in the Pacific. This is his gripping true-life story: combat operations, escorting dive-bombers and squadrons, dogfights, heroics in the cockpit whilst facing a deadly enemy. Davis squadron lost only two planes whilst destroying 155 enemy ones, and the immediacy of these life-and-death struggles is bought vividly to life in his own words, which include a successful attack on the Zuikaku, the last Japanese aircraft carrier left from the Pearl Harbor attack.

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Revue de presse

about the wartime experiences of William W. Davis, a combat pilot in the uS Navy Air Corps, credited, with other pilots, for sinking the the Japanese carrier Zuikaku. Written with great vereve by davis, his story reads like a Hollywood movie, full of great characters, humour, romance, and tradgedy. Beautifull scenery contrasts with the ugliness and brutality of war, with death accepted as inevitable for some unlucky member of this Band of Brothers. The action-packed war-fighting takes place in the final third of the book, but like a good movie it is well worth the wait and the humour and warts-and-all style makes the pages fly by. A superb acount of one man's war. --Warship International Fleet Review

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zenith Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 076032946X
• ISBN 13: 9780760329467
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible