Hostile Sky: A Hellcat Flyer in World War II
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In the summer of 1942 Jim Vernon, a nineteen-year-old college student in Butte, Montana, joined the U.S. Navy's aviation cadet training program and by the spring of 1945 was flying F6F Hellcats from the USS Ticonderoga off of the coast of Japan. This memoir of his years at war provides a carrier pilot's view of the conflict in the Pacific during the final months of the war when the atomic bombs were dropped and Japan capitulated. He gives an up-close-and-personal...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1612514960
ISBN13:9781612514963
Release Date:July 2014
Publisher:US Naval Institute Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.79 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"
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