Midway / A.J. Barker.

By:

Barker, A. J

Material type:

TextPublication details: New York : Galahad Books, �1981.Description: 64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0883655454
9780883655450

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Midway.LOC classification:

D774.M5 B24

Contents:

Prologue -- Plans and preparations -- First strikes -- Disaster for Nagumo -- The end of the Yorktown and Hiryu -- Yamamoto's reaction -- Retreat.

Summary: The decisive turning point in the whole Pacific War was the Battle of Midway, fought in early June 1942. Although it now seems inevitable that the Americans would turn back the Japanese tide of victory, it did not seem so at the time. The United States and its allies had suffered a series of setbacks which forced the American to defend Hawaii at Midway with only three aircraft carriers, one of which, Yorktown, had recently undergone extensive repairs after the battering she took at the Battle of the Coral Sea one month earlier.

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	Books	Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College General stacks		Reference		D774.M5 B24 (Browse shelf(Opens below))				c.1	Available			2024-2073

Includes index.

A Bison book.

Prologue -- Plans and preparations -- First strikes -- Disaster for Nagumo -- The end of the Yorktown and Hiryu -- Yamamoto's reaction -- Retreat.

The decisive turning point in the whole Pacific War was the Battle of Midway, fought in early June 1942. Although it now seems inevitable that the Americans would turn back the Japanese tide of victory, it did not seem so at the time. The United States and its allies had suffered a series of setbacks which forced the American to defend Hawaii at Midway with only three aircraft carriers, one of which, Yorktown, had recently undergone extensive repairs after the battering she took at the Battle of the Coral Sea one month earlier.

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