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Intrepid Aviators The American Flyers Who Sank Japan's Greatest Battleship

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ISBN-10: 0451239911

ISBN-13: 9780451239914

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gregory G. Fletcher

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October 24, 1944: Six young American torpedo bombers were sent on a search-and-destroy mission in the Sibuyan Sea. Their target: the superbattleship Musashi, the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The pilots were tasked with preventing the immense enemy warship from inflicting damage on American supply ships. Little did these men know that they had embarked on the opening round of history’s greatest—and last—epic naval battle. Two bomber crews launched in the first wave of attackers were shot out of the sky. Only pilot Will Fletcher survived the crash landing. Adrift at sea, Will made his way to land and escaped into the jungles of the Philippines, where he eluded capture by the Japanese…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/2/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

In the Philippine Sea
In California
In Hawaii
In Lingga Roads
In the Middle Latitudes
In the Visayas
Over Luzon
Over Formosa
In the Sibuyan Sea
On Strike 2 Able
On Strike 2 Baker
On Strike 2 Charlie
Off Banton and Cape Engano
Off Banton and Luzon
On Panay
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix of Awards
Bibliography
Source Notes
Index