David Rigby

Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway

Sprecher: Stifel, David

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tantor
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 701 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798200357888
• Artikelnr.: 61599324

Autorenporträt

David Rigby is a historian and the author of Allied Master Strategists: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II (Naval Institute Press, 2012), which was awarded the 2012 John Lyman Book Prize in U.S. Naval History and No Substitute for Victory: Successful American Military Strategies from the Revolutionary War to the Present Day (Carrel Books, 2014). He lives in Massachusetts, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. June 4, 1942 - The Search Begins
2. Background of a Battle - and of a Leader
3. The McCluskys of Buffalo
4. Annapolis and a Navy in Transition
5. Naval Aviator
6. The 1930s - Origins of a Troubleshooter
7. Fighting Six
8. Commander, Air Group Six
9. Last Minute Preparations
10. June 4, 1942 - Take-off
11. June 4, 1942 - North or South?
12. June 4, 1942 - The Attack
13. June 4, 1942 - Escape, A Shot-up Airplane, and Two Gallons of Gasoline
14. June 4, 1942 - The Afternoon Attack
15. June 5, 1942 - McClusky Versus Browning
16. McClusky and Historians
17. The Midwar Period - Training Pilots and a Desk in Washington
18. CVE 58
19. The End of the War and the Transition to Peace
20. Postwar
Appendix A: Annapolis Class of 1926 Alumni at Midway
Appendix B: Wade McClusky Navy Cross Citation
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

Rezensionen

A thoroughly good read.