Pacific Thunder (Osprey General Military)
Pacific Thunder: The US Navy’s Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943-October 1944 (Osprey General Military)
2017 | ISBN: 147282184X | English | 330 Pages | True PDF | 25 MB
2017 | ISBN: 147282184X | English | 330 Pages | True PDF | 25 MB
On 27 October 1942, four "Long Lance” torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). Minutes later, the ship that had launched the Doolitte Raid six months earlier slipped beneath the waves of the Coral Sea. Of the pre-war carrier fleet the Navy had struggled to build over 15 years, only three were left: Enterprise, that had been badly damaged in the battle of Santa Cruz; USS Saratoga (CV-3) which lay in dry dock, victim of a Japanese submarine torpedo; and the USS Ranger (CV-4), which was in mid-Atlantic on her way to support Operation Torch.