America&Apos S Few: Marine Aces Of The South Pacific Bill Yenne Osprey Publishing Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

America\ S Few Delves Into The History Of Us Marine Corps Aviation In World War Ii Following Feats Corps’ Top-Scoring Aces Skies Over Guadalcanal Began 1915 Functioning As A Self-Contained Expeditionary Force During Interwar Period Support Usmc Amphibious Operations Became Key Element Doctrine And Small Gradually Grew But December 1941 Came Rude Awakening Within Hours Pearl Harbor Heroic Aviators Were Battling Japanese Wake Island South Pacific Out Shadows To Establish Themselves An Air Second None Summer 1942 When Allied Airpower Was Cobbled Together Single Unified Entity – Nicknamed \ Cactus Force’ Dominated Major General Roy Geiger Its Commander Twelve Fighter Squadrons That Part Eight It Joe Foss Emerged Symbol Vmf-121 He Organized Group Pilots Downed 72 Enemy Aircraft Himself Reached Score 26 Pappy Boyington Meanwhile Had Become Aviator 1935 Best Known Vmf-214 His Own Late 1943 Eventually Matched Foss’s Aerial Victory Through Parallel Stories These Two Well Many Other Such Ken Walsh (21 Victories) Don Aldrich (20) John L Smith (19) Wilbur Thomas (18 5) Marion Carl Whom Received Medal Honor Acclaimed Historian Bill Yenne Examines Development Σελίδες: 352 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0329 Διαστάσεις: 15 3X15 3Cm