Pacific Thunder: The Us Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943-October 1944

by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Book Overview

On 27 October 1942, four "Long Lance" torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). Minutes later, the ship that had launched the Doolitte Raid six months earlier slipped beneath the waves of the Coral Sea 100 miles northeast of the island of Guadalcanal and just north of the Santa Cruz Islands, taking with her 140 of her sailors. With the loss...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147282184X
• ISBN13: 9781472821843
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"