Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor

by Dick Lehr

Book Overview

The definitive and dramatic account of what became known as Operation Vengeance -- the targeted kill by U.S. fighter pilots of Japan's larger-than-life military icon, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval genius who had devised the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor.

"AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NO DRILL." At 7:58 a.m. on December 7, 1941, an officer at the Ford Island Command Center typed what would become one of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006244851X
• ISBN13: 9780062448514
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"